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[28]: 1 For example: "In Colorado, school district payments to the public pension fund have roughly doubled since 2006, from about 10 percent of payroll to 20 percent." [ 28 ] A 2016 study found that only 30% of the money that school districts pay towards the retirement benefits of an educator actually go toward that educator's pension, with 70 ...
The New York City teachers' strike of 1968 was a months-long confrontation between the new community-controlled school board in the largely black Ocean Hill–Brownsville neighborhoods of Brooklyn and New York City's United Federation of Teachers. It began with a one day walkout in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school district.
More than 30,000 public-school teachers of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) went on strike from January 14 to 22, 2019. [1] Protesting low pay, large class sizes, inadequate support staffs of nurses and librarians, and the proliferation of charter schools, the teachers went on strike for the first time in the district in 30 years.
The school district plans to reduce the annual budget by about $10 million due to enrollment decline and expenses projected to be higher than revenues this year, said Joel Zylstra, public ...
In response to racial tension in a community and its schools, the Board of Education and the teachers union in Jackson, Michigan added a "layoff provision" to their collective bargaining agreement; it required that in the event of layoffs, "teachers with the most seniority... shall be retained, except that at no time will there be a greater percentage of minority personnel laid off than the ...
At a recent School Committee meeting, BHS Interim Principal Jose Duarte estimated that between 100 and 200 students out of Brockton High's roughly 3,600 student population are causing chaos.
The major exception was the emergence of unions of public school teachers in the largest cities; they formed the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), affiliated with the AFL. In suburbs and small cities, the National Education Association (NEA) became active, but it insisted it was not a labor union but a professional organization.
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 ...