The Chicago Teachers Union has filed two lawsuits, on behalf of parents and their special needs children, to try to stop the city from closing 53 elementary schools.
Continue reading...South Carolina school district reaches an $85,000 settlement agreement with an English teacher who made national headlines after stomping on an American flag in front of his classes and faced dismissal as a result.
Continue reading...The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a Michigan statute, which prohibits public schools from collecting union dues from its employees, does not violate the rights of teachers or their unions under the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Continue reading...A group of California teachers filed a federal suit claiming that the “agency-shop” law allowing for the collection of union fees must be overturned because it violates their rights of free speech and association.
Continue reading...A lawsuit by Florida’s teachers’ union filed in state court over the merit-pay law was dismissed today, with a circuit judge ruling the sweeping 2011 law did not violate teachers’ state constitutional rights.
Continue reading...Opponents of an initiative-petition proposal in Missouri that requires a new evaluation process for teachers, and does away with tenure protections, have filed a lawsuit challenging the proposal’s ballot summary, which they say would mislead voters.
Continue reading...Teachers at schools run by the United Neighborhood Organization, one of the largest charter school networks in Chicago, voted Wednesday to unionize through affiliation with the American Federation of Teachers.
Continue reading...Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, says teachers need at least a year to master the new common core before schools should be held accountable for results.
Continue reading...The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar, a case addressing the issue of whether an employee must prove that the sole reason for an employer’s action was retaliation or if a successful discrimination claim can be made in situations where retaliation was at least one of two or more motivating factors.
Continue reading...Teachers have filed suit in federal court charging Florida’s sweeping merit-pay law unfairly resulted in many teachers’ evaluations being based on the test scores of students or subjects they did not teach in violation of the equal-protection and due-process clauses of the U.S. Constitution.
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