L.A. May Send Hundreds of Foreign Teachers Back to Their Home Countries

by Jorge Rivas on December 12 2012, 12:26PM

Foreign teachers who have been teaching in L.A. schools for more than six years are being forced home.

Topics: Immigration, /NOW Blog

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Viola Davis Welcomes Protestors Who Disrupted ‘Won’t Back Down’ Premiere

by Jorge Rivas on September 28 2012, 11:45AM

An estimated 50 parents and teachers demonstrated outside the “Won’t Back Down” film premiere in New York Sunday.

Topics: /NOW Blog, Schools & Youth

9904 Comments

So Who Actually Won the Chicago Teachers Strike?

by Jorge Rivas on September 19 2012, 1:35PM

Chicago public school teachers voted on Tuesday to end their strike and resume classes Wednesday in the third-largest U.S. school district in the Nation.

Topics: /NOW Blog, Schools & Youth

9862 Comments

Los Angeles Leads the Way on Data-Driven Reform With Teacher Scores

by Julianne Hing on April 13 2011, 1:28PM

The city’s schools are increasingly the frontline in the battle over business-style reforms for public education.

Topics: Schools & Youth

6660 Comments

Yale Cuts Teaching Program, Funds College for New Haven Kids

by Julianne Hing on November 18 2010, 11:57AM

Many saw it as an important avenue for Yale to support New Haven’s public education system.

Topics: Schools & Youth

5830 Comments

Is Arizona Targeting Teachers through Unfair English Standards?

by Michelle Chen on September 9 2010, 10:03AM

The Justice Department’s taking the state’s “English only” policy to court.

Topics: Politics, Schools & Youth

5416 Comments

Louisiana’s Trafficked Filipino Teachers Take Recruiter to Court

by Julianne Hing on August 13 2010, 2:51PM

Faced intimidation and exorbitant fees, according to suit.

Topics: Global Affairs, Schools & Youth

5211 Comments

Senate Passes $10 Billion Teachers’ Fund

by Julianne Hing on August 5 2010, 3:19PM

Congress’ last minute aid package helps school districts crippled by recession.

Topics: Schools & Youth

5145 Comments

War Spending Bill Won’t Pay for Teachers’ Jobs

by Julianne Hing on July 23 2010, 4:01PM

The White House has successfully intimidated the Senate into passing the bill without $10 billion for teachers’ jobs and other domestic spending.

Topics: Schools & Youth

5053 Comments

White House: Let Food Stamps Pay for Teacher Jobs

by Julianne Hing on July 19 2010, 8:05AM

More madness in the administration’s zeal for its testing-centered education reform.

Topics: Schools & Youth

5015 Comments

Obama’s High-Stakes Teacher Bashing

by Julianne Hing on July 8 2010, 4:14PM

The White House’s outsized reaction to House Democrats’ effort to help states pay educators makes no sense—unless understood as crass, anti-teacher politics.

Topics: Schools & Youth

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