Articles from United States of America
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 30 May 2013 US: 50 schools to be shut down - largest public school closure in history
Last week, Chicago announced the closure of 50 public schools, the majority of them on the South and West sides of the city, in the poorer neighbourhoods. The closures represent about eight per cent of the 681 public schools in Chicago, the third-largest school district in the country.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 April 2013 USA: Union joins global education campaign
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), one of EI’s national affiliates, has joined in the Global Action Week (GAW) led by the Global Campaign for Education, and held from 21-27 April. The theme of this year’s GAW is “Every Child Needs a Teacher”.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 19 April 2013 USA: Unions file federal lawsuit over teacher-evaluation procedure
The National Education Association (NEA), an EI national affiliate, together with the Florida Education Association (FEA), has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the evaluation of teachers based on the standardised test scores of students they do not teach or based on subjects they do not teach.
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Trade union rights are human rights 3 April 2013 USA: Educator unions reject guns in schools
EI’s national affiliates, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA), have strongly rejected the conclusions of a report released by the National Rifle Association (NRA) task force.
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Union growth 8 March 2013 USA: Teacher leader arrested
On 7 March, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten was placed in handcuffs and arrested along with 18 other activists during a protest against the closure of 29 public schools in Philadelphia which, according to Mayor Nutter and the School Reform Commission, are poorly performing schools.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 28 February 2013 USA: Education unions welcome Obama’s proposals on ECE
EI’s national affiliates, The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA), have welcomed President Obama’s proposal to dramatically increase access to early childhood education (ECE) for American students.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 5 February 2013 Seattle teachers reject standardised testing
The entire faculty of Garfield High School in Seattle, US, has voted not to give students a standardised test used in teacher evaluations, the so-called Measures of Academic Progress (MAP).
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Trade union rights are human rights 4 February 2013 EI cherishes centenary of human rights activist
In December 1955, in Montgomery, USA, a black seamstress refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger, even though this was required by regulations. Her name was Rosa Parks, and she has been called ‘the mother of the freedom movement’. February 4 is the 100th...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 24 January 2013 US: Boosting standards for teacher preparation
Raising the bar for students raises it for their teachers as well. To help teachers meet this challenge, one of EI’s affiliates in the United States, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), has developed a proposal for improving the quality of the teaching profession.
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Trade union rights are human rights 16 January 2013 USA: Call for strong response to ongoing school shootings
After another school shooting in Taft, California, EI’s national affiliates, the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), have expressed their deep shock and reiterated the urgent need to prevent future tragedies.
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Trade union rights are human rights 21 December 2012 Dave Lindorff: Heroes or Greedy Moochers at the Public Trough?
I’ll be brief here. Let’s just note that the heroic teachers who died while courageously trying to protect their kids at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, and the others who survived but stayed to protect the kids, were all part of a school system where the employees...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 18 December 2012 US: Michigan passes bills restricting collective bargaining
The Republican-controlled legislature in Michigan passed two misleadingly- named ‘right-to-work’ bills last week. These would allow workers to avoid paying dues to a union representing their sector.
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Trade union rights are human rights 17 December 2012 US education community shares Newtown’s grief and loss
EI affiliates in the US, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA), have expressed their deep condolences to families, educators and the whole community of Newtown, Connecticut, after a shooting rampage at a school left 26 people dead, including 20 students, on Friday.
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Trade union rights are human rights 15 December 2012 Statement by Education International on School Shooting in Newtown USA on 14 December 2012
The international community of educators and school employees, represented by Education International, is deeply shocked by the killing of twenty children and six adults in the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, USA, yesterday.
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Trade union rights are human rights 15 December 2012 USA: 26 Killed in School Shooting
“There are no records of a massacre of this size hitting a school population outside a warzone since the massacre at Virginia Tech in 2007,” says the General Secretary of Education International, Fred van Leeuwen, commenting on the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, USA, yesterday, whereby twenty children and six...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 22 November 2012 Share My Lesson: using technology to share teaching resources
Share My Lesson (SML) is a new digital platform developed by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and its British partner, TES Connect. In the free SML online community, educators can come together to access and share high-quality teaching resources.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 13 November 2012 North American educators show great solidarity in times of crisis
The teaching profession has undoubtedly suffered as a result of the onset of the 2008 economic recession that still hovers above the heads of educational professionals around the world today. Teachers’ salaries have been cut or frozen, teaching hours have increased in several countries without added pay, collective-bargaining rights have...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 November 2012 USA: Educators celebrate International Education Week
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), one of EI’s U.S. affiliates, will actively participate in the third annual Global Education Conference (GEC), to take place entirely online during International Education Week, from 12-16 November.
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