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  • Stop our retirement fund from investing in genocide!

    CALSTRS DIVEST is holding a virtual teach-in on October 25th.

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • AFT Members: Petition for Israeli Arms Embargo

    https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/aft-and-the-us-arms-embargo-an-open-letter-to

  • CALSTRS DIVEST

    Money for Jobs and Education, not for Bombs and Occupation Our CalSTRS pension fund invests in corporations directly involved with Israel’s war in Gaza— they need to divest this part…

  • Teacher Pay Gap

    —— From the Economic Policy Institute   EPI.org

  • Teaching Climate Action

    Most students and teachers who look at the existential threat of climate change want to learn what we can do about it.  This is certainly the case in Oakland where…

  • #16 Retaliation for Palestine Solidarity

    Students and educators have been organizing for Palestine and for Gaza in unprecedented numbers— and universities and now school districts have been retaliating against activists in response to pressure from…

  • #14 Teacher Salaries vs. Other College-educated Workers by country

    In the last issue I wrote about two graphs comparing the relative expenditures on education across countries and US states. I also found this one, showing the ‘teacher penalty’ across…

  • #14 Book Review:  From the New Deal to the War on Schools

    Race, Inequality and the Rise of the Punitive Education State In the K12 education world, many believe that 2001’s “No Child Left Behind” (under George W. Bush) was the beginning…

  • #13 Rep Council and Zoom: A reply

    I appreciated the Solidarity News #12 editorial from an OEA member and have this to say as a United Teachers of Richmond (UTR) member. Yes, it’s depressing to have Zoom…

  • #13 Is % GDP What We Want?

    When we argue for increased spending on public education we often say that “the fifth largest economy in the world” can easily afford to adequately fund schools. So we’re talking…

  • #11 Opinions on Community Schools: What About the Community Schools Workers?

    Everyone seems to be in favor of community schools— unions, parent groups, the CA DOE, Jill Biden.  That’s a good thing— it’s what our schools should be and if what’s…

  • #11 Opinions on Community Schools: Push for National Health Care

    What worries me are the mental health services and other health services the community schools will supposedly offer. We know that health care is lacking for working people in this…