Paul Gigot interviews Tom Carroll, superintendent of Boston s Catholic schools
Washington, D.C., has filed a motion for a restraining order against the Washington Teachers Union in an effort to prevent strikes as the District plans to reopen schools.
The restraining order would prevent D.C. educators from discussing potential strikes as they return to in-person learning, according to Fox 5.
Elizabeth Davis, president of the Washington Teachers Union, said during a Tuesday press conference that because no strike is ongoing or imminent, any action by the court is unnecessary and premature, adding that an injunction would.place members in fear even if they have legitimate reasons to take leave.
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ImpactAlpha, Feb. 2 – A contested election. A political deal. An historic sellout.
Screech… halt… stop. The presidential election just finished had a decidedly different outcome than the previously most fiercely contested election.
The outcome of the 1876 election between Samuel Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes actually was thrown in Congress, which gave the electoral votes of Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina and to Hayes in a deal to withdraw federal troops from their deployments in those states.
That signaled the end of Reconstruction, the decade-long experiment in multiracial democracy and inclusive prosperity that spurred small-town vitality and the flourishing of Black businesses and professionals across the South in the decade after the Civil War. The white supremacist backlash that followed ushered in decades of Jim Crow.
Chicago teachers take a stand to save lives over profits
A critical struggle is now unfolding in Chicago, which has vast significance for workers across the United States and internationally. Educators are determined to prevent the deadly reopening of schools in the third largest school district in the US, placing them in direct conflict with the Democratic Party and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), which are negotiating for this reopening to begin as soon as possible.
Chicago teachers march in October, 2019
In countries throughout the world that have been ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, the ruling elites are seeking to reopen schools in order to compel parents to go back to work. On Monday, schools in São Paulo, Brazil began reopening, sending potentially over two million students back into classrooms, even as virulent new strains of the virus spread throughout the country. Similar homicidal policies are being pursued in Germany, Britain and across Europe, and dozens of other
February 2, 2021
President Joe Biden promised that schools would open for grades K-8 within his first 100 days in office. He’s also proposed at least $175 billion to do it, the same amount demanded by Biden top donor and the nation’s largest union, the National Education Association.
Biden coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci, who previously has not been able to clarify if he thinks schools should open, now backs Biden’s massive spending plan, but still confusingly says school reopening may not happen after all.
On Thursday, Fauci told both the NEA and the American Federation of Teachers, the nation’s second-largest teachers union, that “The president is taking very seriously the issue, both from the students’ standpoint and from the teachers’ standpoint… [Biden] believes that the [K-8] schools need to reopen in the next 100 days… That’s the goal. That may not happen, because there may be mitigating circumstances, but what he really wants to do is everything w