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The revolution may not be televised, but it is happening in public schools. This is evident in the growth of student and teacher actions across the country, from walkouts to strikes.
You can help this movement grow even bigger.
Public school communities – students, teachers, parents, and citizens – have seen their institutions targeted with deeper budget cuts, greater inequities in the system, harsher penalties for “underperforming” on arbitrary standards, and deadlier gun violence.
Is it any wonder that people are starting to stand up and say they’ve had it with inaction on school safety? Trump and the GOP Congress have failed America’s students, teachers and families. It’s time for them to get out of the way of student-led change.
One week from today more than a million people are expected to join the March for Our Lives, with students leading the way. With the 2018 primaries in full swing, and Illinois coming up on Tuesday, we can both march for our lives and vote for our lives. Imagine a Congress that listened to students, teachers and families rather than doing less than nothing about school safety.
Will you chip in to support student leadership in this critical moment? Student Action is on the ground mobilizing volunteers to knock on thousands of doors to elect bold progressives to Congress.
This week, mass walkouts of students in middle schools and high schools spanned the nation to protest school shootings and lack of sensible gun control.
Even as students were out in the streets calling for sensible gun control, President Donald Trump was reversing himself once again, backing off meaningful steps for gun control and increasing funds for arming teachers instead.
The students demand the right to attend school in an environment where they don’t have to worry about being gunned down. “Protect lives, not guns” was an oft-observed sign held aloft in the demonstrations.
The mass student walkouts came close after another headline-grabbing story born from the public school community: the successful teacher strike in West Virginia.
In defiance of state laws making public employee strikes illegal, nearly 20,000 teachers and about 13,000 school service personnel in all 55 counties of the Mountain State shut down schools for nine days. School boards and administrators across the state expressed strong support for the teachers and took no actions to end the walkouts.
West Virginia lawmakers buckled to all five of the teachers’ demands including a five-percent pay raise for all public employees, a realistic commitment from the state to address a broken public employee health insurance program, limits on charter school expansions, a continuation of seniority privileges for teachers and the ability of unions to deduct dues through payroll collection.
The successful action of the West Virginia teachers is inspiring similar actions in other states.
Teachers in Oklahoma have set an April 2 date for a statewide strike, if their demands for better pay and working conditions aren’t met by state lawmakers. In Arizona, two public school advocacy groups are planning a march on the state capitol for March 28. Their chief complaints are lousy teacher pay, college student-loan burdens, a shortage of qualified teachers, and cuts to classroom resources. In Kentucky, hundreds of teachers are protesting cuts to their benefit programs. Local media are reporting the actions are a “precursor to a statewide strike.”
It’s not surprising that school communities have become a breeding ground for dissent.
People who rely on public schools have a lot to complain about. Government officials at all levels have been underpaying teachers and making their lives miserable, wielding budget cuts that close learning opportunities for students, and pushing schools toward more prison like conditions instead of doing something meaningful about gun violence. This is opposite of what public-school students and teachers say they want: meaningful gun control.
Schools are America’s most collaborative endeavor, by far. They’re the places we’ve entrusted to teach the values of democracy. They’re working.
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Is it any wonder that people are starting to stand up and say they’ve had it with inaction on school safety? Trump and the GOP Congress have failed America’s students, teachers and families. It’s time for them to get out of the way of student-led change.
One week from today more than a million people are expected to join the March for Our Lives, with students leading the way. With the 2018 primaries in full swing, and Illinois coming up on Tuesday, we can both march for our lives and vote for our lives. Imagine a Congress that listened to students, teachers and families rather than doing less than nothing about school safety.
Will you chip in to support student leadership in this critical moment? Student Action is on the ground mobilizing volunteers to knock on thousands of doors to elect bold progressives to Congress.
This week, mass walkouts of students in middle schools and high schools spanned the nation to protest school shootings and lack of sensible gun control.
Even as students were out in the streets calling for sensible gun control, President Donald Trump was reversing himself once again, backing off meaningful steps for gun control and increasing funds for arming teachers instead.
The students demand the right to attend school in an environment where they don’t have to worry about being gunned down. “Protect lives, not guns” was an oft-observed sign held aloft in the demonstrations.
The mass student walkouts came close after another headline-grabbing story born from the public school community: the successful teacher strike in West Virginia.
In defiance of state laws making public employee strikes illegal, nearly 20,000 teachers and about 13,000 school service personnel in all 55 counties of the Mountain State shut down schools for nine days. School boards and administrators across the state expressed strong support for the teachers and took no actions to end the walkouts.
West Virginia lawmakers buckled to all five of the teachers’ demands including a five-percent pay raise for all public employees, a realistic commitment from the state to address a broken public employee health insurance program, limits on charter school expansions, a continuation of seniority privileges for teachers and the ability of unions to deduct dues through payroll collection.
The successful action of the West Virginia teachers is inspiring similar actions in other states.
Teachers in Oklahoma have set an April 2 date for a statewide strike, if their demands for better pay and working conditions aren’t met by state lawmakers. In Arizona, two public school advocacy groups are planning a march on the state capitol for March 28. Their chief complaints are lousy teacher pay, college student-loan burdens, a shortage of qualified teachers, and cuts to classroom resources. In Kentucky, hundreds of teachers are protesting cuts to their benefit programs. Local media are reporting the actions are a “precursor to a statewide strike.”
It’s not surprising that school communities have become a breeding ground for dissent.
People who rely on public schools have a lot to complain about. Government officials at all levels have been underpaying teachers and making their lives miserable, wielding budget cuts that close learning opportunities for students, and pushing schools toward more prison like conditions instead of doing something meaningful about gun violence. This is opposite of what public-school students and teachers say they want: meaningful gun control.
Schools are America’s most collaborative endeavor, by far. They’re the places we’ve entrusted to teach the values of democracy. They’re working.
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Is it any wonder that people are starting to stand up and say they’ve had it with inaction on school safety? Trump and the GOP Congress have failed America’s students, teachers and families. It’s time for them to get out of the way of student-led change.
One week from today more than a million people are expected to join the March for Our Lives, with students leading the way. With the 2018 primaries in full swing, and Illinois coming up on Tuesday, we can both march for our lives and vote for our lives. Imagine a Congress that listened to students, teachers and families rather than doing less than nothing about school safety.
Will you chip in to support student leadership in this critical moment? Student Action is on the ground mobilizing volunteers to knock on thousands of doors to elect bold progressives to Congress.
This week, mass walkouts of students in middle schools and high schools spanned the nation to protest school shootings and lack of sensible gun control.
Even as students were out in the streets calling for sensible gun control, President Donald Trump was reversing himself once again, backing off meaningful steps for gun control and increasing funds for arming teachers instead.
The students demand the right to attend school in an environment where they don’t have to worry about being gunned down. “Protect lives, not guns” was an oft-observed sign held aloft in the demonstrations.
The mass student walkouts came close after another headline-grabbing story born from the public school community: the successful teacher strike in West Virginia.
In defiance of state laws making public employee strikes illegal, nearly 20,000 teachers and about 13,000 school service personnel in all 55 counties of the Mountain State shut down schools for nine days. School boards and administrators across the state expressed strong support for the teachers and took no actions to end the walkouts.
West Virginia lawmakers buckled to all five of the teachers’ demands including a five-percent pay raise for all public employees, a realistic commitment from the state to address a broken public employee health insurance program, limits on charter school expansions, a continuation of seniority privileges for teachers and the ability of unions to deduct dues through payroll collection.
The successful action of the West Virginia teachers is inspiring similar actions in other states.
Teachers in Oklahoma have set an April 2 date for a statewide strike, if their demands for better pay and working conditions aren’t met by state lawmakers. In Arizona, two public school advocacy groups are planning a march on the state capitol for March 28. Their chief complaints are lousy teacher pay, college student-loan burdens, a shortage of qualified teachers, and cuts to classroom resources. In Kentucky, hundreds of teachers are protesting cuts to their benefit programs. Local media are reporting the actions are a “precursor to a statewide strike.”
It’s not surprising that school communities have become a breeding ground for dissent.
People who rely on public schools have a lot to complain about. Government officials at all levels have been underpaying teachers and making their lives miserable, wielding budget cuts that close learning opportunities for students, and pushing schools toward more prison like conditions instead of doing something meaningful about gun violence. This is opposite of what public-school students and teachers say they want: meaningful gun control.
Schools are America’s most collaborative endeavor, by far. They’re the places we’ve entrusted to teach the values of democracy. They’re working.
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Is it any wonder that people are starting to stand up and say they’ve had it with inaction on school safety? Trump and the GOP Congress have failed America’s students, teachers and families. It’s time for them to get out of the way of student-led change.
One week from today more than a million people are expected to join the March for Our Lives, with students leading the way. With the 2018 primaries in full swing, and Illinois coming up on Tuesday, we can both march for our lives and vote for our lives. Imagine a Congress that listened to students, teachers and families rather than doing less than nothing about school safety.
Will you chip in to support student leadership in this critical moment? Student Action is on the ground mobilizing volunteers to knock on thousands of doors to elect bold progressives to Congress.
This week, mass walkouts of students in middle schools and high schools spanned the nation to protest school shootings and lack of sensible gun control.
Even as students were out in the streets calling for sensible gun control, President Donald Trump was reversing himself once again, backing off meaningful steps for gun control and increasing funds for arming teachers instead.
The students demand the right to attend school in an environment where they don’t have to worry about being gunned down. “Protect lives, not guns” was an oft-observed sign held aloft in the demonstrations.
The mass student walkouts came close after another headline-grabbing story born from the public school community: the successful teacher strike in West Virginia.
In defiance of state laws making public employee strikes illegal, nearly 20,000 teachers and about 13,000 school service personnel in all 55 counties of the Mountain State shut down schools for nine days. School boards and administrators across the state expressed strong support for the teachers and took no actions to end the walkouts.
West Virginia lawmakers buckled to all five of the teachers’ demands including a five-percent pay raise for all public employees, a realistic commitment from the state to address a broken public employee health insurance program, limits on charter school expansions, a continuation of seniority privileges for teachers and the ability of unions to deduct dues through payroll collection.
The successful action of the West Virginia teachers is inspiring similar actions in other states.
Teachers in Oklahoma have set an April 2 date for a statewide strike, if their demands for better pay and working conditions aren’t met by state lawmakers. In Arizona, two public school advocacy groups are planning a march on the state capitol for March 28. Their chief complaints are lousy teacher pay, college student-loan burdens, a shortage of qualified teachers, and cuts to classroom resources. In Kentucky, hundreds of teachers are protesting cuts to their benefit programs. Local media are reporting the actions are a “precursor to a statewide strike.”
It’s not surprising that school communities have become a breeding ground for dissent.
People who rely on public schools have a lot to complain about. Government officials at all levels have been underpaying teachers and making their lives miserable, wielding budget cuts that close learning opportunities for students, and pushing schools toward more prison like conditions instead of doing something meaningful about gun violence. This is opposite of what public-school students and teachers say they want: meaningful gun control.
Schools are America’s most collaborative endeavor, by far. They’re the places we’ve entrusted to teach the values of democracy. They’re working.
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