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...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 Nampa Education Association has sued the Nampa School District, in Idaho, claiming teachers were pressured to sign an addendum to their master contracts agreeing to as many as four voluntary furlough days between January and May 2013, in violation of a state Department of Education rule requiring deviations from the master contract to be approved by the State Superintendent.
Continue reading...The California Teachers Association (CTA) and the California Federation of Teachers (CFT) have filed a motion in L.A. County Superior Court to intervene as defendants in a lawsuit that would radically alter tenure for public school teachers.
Continue reading...The Associated Press reports on BloombergBusinessweek.com that teacher evaluations will be kept secret from most taxpayers after state lawmaker’s passed Governor Andrew Cuomo’s bill, giving a major victory to teachers unions, who opposed wider disclosure of the evaluations.
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