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Tech Execs Buy Better Public Schools— For Their Towns.
A recent article in EdSource covers the funding inequality between school districts created by “Basic Aid” Districts. I’ve written about funding inequality in Solidarity News before (SN Oct 2024, 2022 numbers). The EdSource article has more details and numbers…
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Stop our retirement fund from investing in genocide!
CALSTRS DIVEST is holding a virtual teach-in on October 25th.
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UTR Acts as Agents of the District
While presenting a façade of opposition to the West Contra Costa Unified School District (hereon referred to as “WCCUSD” or “the district”), at key points, the United Teachers of Richmond (hereon referred to as “UTR”) does exactly what they…
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Federal Vouchers– Trump’s biggest threat to schools
There has been a lot of concern by educators about Trump’s dismantling of the federal Department of Education. But in the ‘big, beautiful bill’ just passed by the House there is a provision that is probably a bigger threat…
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Waiting for ‘We Can’t Wait’
We Can’t Wait, an alliance of fourteen CA locals, is a great idea— but it’s not clear how much real life it has in it. The East Bay districts that are part of the alliance have little or no…
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ICE: Coming to your school soon!
Friday morning, a mix of masked and unmasked ICE shock-troops attempted to abduct the school nurse at Cooke Elementary School, located in the densely populated Adams Morgan section of DC. Workers at the school intervened, demanding a warrant and…
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A Statewide Strike in 2025? Here’s How it Could Happen
Picture this: educators from San Diego to San Jose, LA to Sacramento, all at once taking to the streets and withholding our labor, demanding the conditions and wages we’ve been denied in contract after contract. Students and families joining…
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We Can’t Wait Campaign off to a Rainy Start: Is the gloom just in the weather?
The CTA-led “We Can’t Wait” campaign in the Bay Area got started with a rally in Oakland’s downtown Oscar Grant Plaza onTuesday, February 4. Near-constant and occasionally heavy rain had an impact on attendance. By my very rough estimate,…
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Counted Out: film and math politics review: Can we achieve personal fulfillment and save the world by just learning algebra?
“Counted Out” is is a very well-intentioned, sweet film about the importance of math education. Unfortunately, it is at root fatally misguided, and thereby damaging to both education and equality. Many of us entered the world of education hoping…
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AFT’s Randi Weingarten Continues to Defend For-Profit Healthcare
Randi Weingarten, president of AFT, and for many the face of Teachers’ unions (having been our president for over 16 years!), has a history of subtle defense of for-profit healthcare. When pressed, she will admit that Medicare for All…
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Report: Educator Upsurge Panel
Alex Caputo-Pearl of UTLA made a lot of the 2025 contract alignment campaign. He linked it closely to Sean Fein’s call for a “general strike” in 2028. He framed the fight as one in which the union movement needs to establish an independent…
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AFT MEMBERS: Sign petition for Palestine divestment
https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/aft-and-the-us-arms-embargo-an-open-letter-to
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AFT Members: Petition for Israeli Arms Embargo
https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/aft-and-the-us-arms-embargo-an-open-letter-to
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Class Size– Again
The CACS “We Can’t Wait” campaign has reducing class size as one of its demands (article on 11/26). We thought it wold be useful to repost this article from our second newsletter issue in December 2021 about the necessity…
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Mount Diablo USD: Contract Round Begins– Rally at Board Meeting 12/14
The one year deal signed earlier this year secured a 9% pay hike for all MDEA members. MDEA members in a previous contract fight won 100% health care for members and dependents (based on Kaiser rates). This win however…
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