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The Teaching Assistants Association (TAA) marching down State Street in downtown Madison, February 14, 2012 TAA members on strike in 1970. The Teaching Assistants Association (TAA) is a graduate student employee union formed at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1966. It is credited as the first graduate student labor union.
In Wisconsin, however, many new laws become effective as soon as the governor signs them. That means 2025 will not kick off with a wave of new rules. Wisconsin, instead, will see some technical ...
To effect its mission, the Department administers unemployment benefits and workers' compensation programs for the state of Wisconsin; ensures compliance with state laws on wages and discrimination; provides job resources, training, and employment assistance for job-seekers; and engages with employers to help them find and maintain adequate ...
An exception was the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where 2,500 graduate assistants won recognition in November 1990 and a contract the following year covering teaching, research, and project assistants, and assistant residence directors. Teaching assistants at the University at Buffalo began a union campaign in 1975, but withdrew their ...
In Wisconsin, a large portion of school funding is determined by how many students are enrolled in a district. During the 15 years examined in the policy forum's report, student enrollment in the ...
One such suit is when the association sued the Wisconsin Virtual Academy and Connections Academy, because WEAC felt that the two schools "were operating in violation of open enrollment, charter school and teacher licensing laws". [16] Wisconsin Virtual Academy was first established in September 2003 with full approval of the DPI.
According to the Wisconsin Policy Forum, homeschool enrollment soared in fall 2020 by nearly 50%. Homeschooled students still make up a relatively small portion of Wisconsin students, but the ...
A teacher who may be deemed "highly qualified" by Alabama standards, may not be deemed "highly qualified" by California standards. Some scholars point out that "from a practical standpoint, interstate differences in what it meant to be certified provided the federal government with few assurances that, across the board, the nations' teachers ...