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More than 2,000 members from the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers have signed a petition calling for the end of 3-5-7-9, a policy that disciplines staff members for using contractual sick

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The agreement between the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers and the school district includes 5% salary raises for all union employees, retention bonuses of $1,200, and more.

Major strikes and worker victories in 2023 have set the stage for a potentially monumental year of labor action.

The Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators was formed in 2008 when a group of educators and union members came together to transform the Chicago Teachers Union. What they would build would end up changing the city—and country—forever.

Educators say lack of paid leave is contributing to the teacher shortage in the city and in Pennsylvania.

The policy grew out of necessity — very few students this spring have taken or will take the state test due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

9,000 Philly teachers have been vaccinated and thousands more are eligible as some schools prepare to open Monday Kristen A. Graham, The Philadelphia Inquirer © TIM TAI/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS A health-care worker administers a COVID-19 vaccine at South Philadelphia High School in South Philadelphia. Every educator who works in Philadelphia and wants the COVID-19 vaccine can be fully inoculated by the end of the month, officials said Thursday. Through a partnership betw...

Philadelphia School District is reopening. Here’s the plan for students and teachers returning. Kristen A. Graham, The Philadelphia Inquirer © ALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Philadelphia students are now scheduled to return to school March 8 after a deal was struck by the school district, its teachers union, and the city. A deal to begin returning Philadelphia School District students to classrooms has been struck: Some teachers will begin reporting to b...

Philadelphia teachers defy return to classroom order By Betsey Piette posted on February 10, 2021 Philadelphia Thousands of Philadelphia public school teachers defied an order from school Superintendent William Hite Jr. to return to their classrooms Feb. 8 for the first time since schools became fully virtual in March 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown. Across the city, educators demonstrated outside closed public school buildings. (tinyurl.com/y2962287)  Despite bitter cold, severa...