PRESS RELEASE For immediate release: April 30, 2013 RI Teachers Issue Stinging Indictment of Commissioner Gist 85% of Teachers Believe Gist’s Contract Should Not Be Renewed Providence, R.I. – An independent survey of Rhode Island’s public school…
Pawtucket Schools Plan Major Increase in Technology Funding
By Local930 Superintendent Cylke, Business Manager Tom Conlon, and Technology Director Hersh Cristino unveiled plans at last night’s budget workshop at a special meeting of the Pawtucket School Committee. Revenues are expected to slightly increase next year, primarily in…
Tolman and Newtown Baseball — A Grand Slam
by Local930 Tolman High School baseball team played Newtown High School at McCoy Stadium last Saturday in an effort to raise funds to assist the fallen town after disaster struck them last fall. Nearly 1000 spectators attended, coupled with…
Five Things Everyone Should Know about Testing
by Local930 Five Things Everyone Should Know about the Testing Fixation in US Schools 1: The world’s top-performing school systems approach learning and testing completely differently than we do. The countries whose school systems outperform the United States…
Brave New World
Healthwire March/May 2013 Feature Story Wisconsin chapter reinvents itself in the face of major collective bargaining changes. JAMES EFFENHEIM HAD never been very involved in the work of the union, but when the events in Wisconsin surrounding Act 10—a…
Back to School Grants for Teachers from AFT
by Local 930 The AFT Robert G. Porters Scholars Program offers 10 one-time, $1,000 grants to AFT members who seek to advance their careers in their field of study. The brief application asks you to indicate your area of…