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Durante más de un año y medio, nuestros niños en toda el Área de la Bahía se han perdido de la enseñanza en persona de sus maestros y los muchos otros beneficios de la educación en persona. angustiosa interrupción en la vida de los niños puede haber sido necesaria...

For more than a year and a half, children throughout the Bay Area have missed out on in-person instruction from their teachers and the many benefits of in-person schooling. While this distressing disruption in children’s lives may have been necessary earlier in the pandemic, it is now time to...

Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. — La Federación de Maestros de California (“California Federation of Teachers”) hace un llamado a la Sala de Prensa del Gobernador Gavin Newsom a que instruyan a las escuelas a que asuman el aprendizaje a distancia hasta que las cifras del COVID-19...

Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Federation of Teachers is urging Gov. Gavin Newsom to delay physical reopening of schools and direct districts to go to distance learning until COVID-19 infections drop and safeguards are in place. On Monday, both Los Angeles and San Diego...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – In California and across the nation, districts are struggling to hire enough teachers. And the shortage is getting worse, according to a new report. There remains a supply gap of about 110,000 teachers nationwide as of last school year, primarily because more teachers are quitting or...

Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Teachers’ groups are praising a decision by their pension fund to eliminate its stock holdings in private prison companies. The California State Teachers Retirement System announced on Thursday that it will divest completely from investments in private prison companies within six...

NAPSI There are a little over 3 million teachers in America’s public schools and for the majority of them, interacting with children is the best part of the job. That’s just as well, since for too many, salary and working conditions are pretty poor. In fact, for more than...

Katherine Davis-Young Public News Service PHOENIX — Teachers nationwide are wearing red today in support of public education. Here in Arizona, educators are vowing to continue to fight for better schools in the state, despite an education funding initiative that was blocked from ballots. The state Supreme Court last...

Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California union leaders are speaking out as the U.S. Supreme Court considers a case that could deal a big financial blow to public-sector unions and the causes they support. Arguments started Monday in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal...