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Providence, RI, School Board Votes to Lay Off All Teachers

The Providence School Board has voted 4-3 to send dismissal notices to all of the Rhode Island school district's 1,926 teachers. Thursday night's meeting was held in a school gymnasium to accommodate the more than 700 teachers who turned out to voice their opposition to the move. The board vote came after two hours of...

Wisconsin Lawmakers Take Up Bill to Cripple Unions

MADISON, Wis. -- With their Senate colleagues still in hiding, Democrats in the Wisconsin Assembly began introducing a barrage of 100 amendments Tuesday to try to stymie the Republican governor's plan to strip unionized public employees of most of their bargaining rights. Both houses of the GOP-controlled Legislature...

Poll: Most Want Easier Way to Fire Bad Teachers

ATLANTA (Dec. 14) -- An overwhelming majority of Americans are frustrated that it's too difficult to get rid of bad teachers, while most also believe that teachers aren't paid enough, a new poll shows. The Associated Press-Stanford University poll found that 78 percent think it should be easier for school administrators...

Opinion: Teachers Unions in the Forefront of Education Reform

(Nov. 12) -- Disparaging our children's teachers and blaming teachers unions won't improve public education. While, sadly, bashing unions is the specialty and mission of the Center for Union Facts, as it demonstrated in its AOL News opinion piece last week ("Will Teachers Unions Bend to Education Reform?"), the American...

Opinion: Will Teachers Unions Bend to Education Reform?

(Nov. 5) -- Democrats in Congress aren't the only ones who had a bad day on Tuesday. So did their No. 1 cash cow, the teachers unions. The two largest teachers unions -- the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, which combine to form the single largest source of donations to Democrats --...

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THE HUFFINGTON POST - LOCAL

Is Rahm Bullying Teachers?

A couple of voices from Mayor Emanuel's "education reform" choir are up in arms because some public school teachers are now talking seriously about the possibility of a teachers' strike in Chicago later this summer.

THE HUFFINGTON POST

Matt Farmer: Teachers Don't Like Bullies

A couple of voices from Mayor Emanuel's "education reform" choir are up in arms because some public schools teachers are now talking seriously about the possibility of a teachers' strike in Chicago later this summer.

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06/02/12 Fedenko wins GFT election Source: Guampdn.com The Guam Federation of Teachers has elected Tim Fedenko, an elementary school teacher and former vice president of the union, president of GFT.
05/29/12 MoE 'subpoenas' POTAG before NLC Source: Ghana Home Page The Ministry of Education is gearing up for a showdown with the leadership of the Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG) at the National Labour Commission on Wednesday for allegedly embarking on an illegal strike.
05/24/12 A night at the opera Source: CityLife - Las Vegas NV "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
05/21/12 UFT boss is under âfire!' Source: New York City News - New York NY An outraged UFT chapter leader yesterday called on union boss Michael Mulgrew to step down if he traded away his members' rights to school officials who hushed up his alleged classroom affair with a guidance counselor.The startling accusations came in a federal lawsuit filed in Suffolk County that names Mulgrew, the United Federation of Teachers, Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott.Jeff Kauf... ...
05/19/12 Longtime NM senator faces an upstart and opposition... Source: Las Cruces Sun-News - Las Cruces NM On accounting sheets, the primary race between 24-year state Sen. John Arthur Smith and challenger Larry P. Martinez is a colossal mismatch.

Background on american federation of teachers

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is an American labor union founded in 1916 that represents teachers, paraprofessionals and school-related personnel; local, state and federal employees; higher education faculty and staff, and nurses and other healthcare professionals.

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