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On October 2, 2014, after months of negotiating between the WCUSD Teachers union and the School board, the teachers authorized a strike. At midnight October 2, the teachers were now on strike after failing to reach a deal. [5] Schools were closed during the strike, which lasted one month; classes resumed on Monday, November 3. [6]
There were 7,030 students and 568 certified instructional staff in the district in the 2023-2024 school year, according to a May 2024 school district presentation.
The district will cut 26 positions through layoffs, non-renewed contracts, retirements, and leaving positions vacant. Weymouth to cut 26 school workers due to budget shortfall. What administrators ...
[36] [37] William Henry Kellar, in his study of school desegregation in Houston, Texas, described the process of white flight in Houston's Independent School District. He noted that white students made up 49.9 percent of HISD's enrollment in 1970, but that number steadily dropped over the decade. [38]
The pilot program was designed to fight school segregation and racial inequity in school policies, teacher hiring, and Black and Puerto Rican student outcomes. [9] When the majority Black and Puerto Rican school board fired 14 white union teachers for underperformance, Shanker led UFT teachers in a strike to oppose community control.
The district has a pupil-to-teacher ratio of 15:1, with 87.7% of teachers identifying as female and 12.3% as male. The average teacher salary is $77,682, with 79.8% of teachers holding a master’s degree or higher and 20.2% holding a bachelor’s degree. [6]
For the 2024-25 school year, 72% of public schools with special education teacher vacancies reported they'd "experienced difficulty" filling the positions, according to the Education Department ...
The 2019 Chicago Public Schools strike was a labor dispute between Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union (which represents the school district's teachers and some of the paraprofessional and school related personnel) and the Service Employees International Union Local 73 (which represents the district's support staff and a majority of the paraprofessional and school related ...