April 2, 2018 Kentucky, Oklahoma teachers walk out of classrooms to demand higher pay, more funding Thousands of educators in Kentucky and Oklahoma took to the streets of their respective state capitals Monday to demand higher pay and more funding for public education.
March 23, 2018 NFL players to take on criminal justice issues at Harvard NFL players are joining attorneys, professors and others at Harvard Law School for a summit on criminal justice issues.
March 9, 2018 Teachers quitting Delaware; union cites relatively low pay A Delaware official says the Department of Education needs to survey educators to figure out why teachers are leaving the state.
March 8, 2018 Teacher handcuffed: School board accused of stifling debate Louisiana's attorney general has filed a lawsuit accusing a local school board of stifling public debate at a meeting in January disrupted by the video-recorded arrest of a teacher being handcuffed on a hallway floor.
March 8, 2018 West Virginia counties nix spring break after teacher strike West Virginia schools Superintendent Steve Paine says the nine days of instructional time lost during the recent teacher strike must be made up.
March 8, 2018 School board sued over meeting where teacher removed, cuffed Louisiana's attorney general has sued a local school board over a meeting disrupted by the video-recorded arrest of a teacher who was roughly handcuffed on a hallway floor after she criticized the district superintendent's pay raise.
March 7, 2018 Teacher unions see momentum build with West Virginia strike As teachers in West Virginia noisily celebrated a 5 percent raise that ended their nine-day walkout, momentum was building elsewhere for similar protests over pay and benefits for the nation's public school teachers.
March 5, 2018 West Virginia teacher strike enters eighth day with no end in sight A statewide teacher strike in West Virginia entered its eighth day Monday without a clear resolution in sight—keeping 277,000 students away and particularly hurting those who rely on school-provided free meals in a state where the poverty rate is 17.9 percent.
March 2, 2018 High school teacher fired after lying about military service, Purple Hearts A Massachusetts high school teacher who claimed to be a decorated war hero with two Purple Hearts has been fired after school officials discovered he was lying.
March 1, 2018 West Virginia schools remain closed despite raise deal West Virginia's House has OK'd a 5 percent pay raise negotiated by the governor to end a walkout by the state's teachers though schools in all 55 counties plan to stay closed Thursday.
