Schools Forced to Choose: Learn Remotely or Risk Lives

Schools Forced to Choose: Learn Remotely or Risk Lives

As the school year begins, some states and districts have made the unhappy, but smart decision to start the school year remotely. In other states and districts that have reopened irresponsibly (including districts in Indiana, Georgia, and Florida), infections were...
Arizona School Teachers and Staff Fight Back against COVID

Arizona School Teachers and Staff Fight Back against COVID

“At some point, we are going to have to come up with an acceptable casualty rate, and nobody wants to have that conversation.” These were the words of a school board member of a small Arizona district, commenting on the insane idea that schools should reopen despite...
June 2020 Education Newsletter

June 2020 Education Newsletter

download as PDF We Won’t Pay for Their Crisis After the Democratic governor of California proposed $18 billion in budget cuts to education, a recent email from the OUSD Superintendent threatened an additional $16.5 million in budget cuts in Oakland. Back in March,...
UC Berkeley: No Cuts! No Furloughs!

UC Berkeley: No Cuts! No Furloughs!

As the pandemic continues, University of California (UC) is crying poor. An investigation done by AFSCME, one of the unions of workers at the University, found UC had more money in April than in March of this year. They have plenty of money that’s supposed to be set...