Three Educators Share Their Experiences and Aspirations By Monique Boone, Kelly Erinakes, Nicholas Ferroni Teaching, a truly noble profession, is on life support. After decades of inadequate investment, our public schools were short-staffed and under-resourced when the pandemic began. Now,…
Mayor Wu joins unions to push back on state takeover of Boston schools
By Christopher Huffaker Globe Staff, Updated May 19, 2022, 3:14 p.m. Mayor Michelle Wu, alongside local and national teachersunion leaders, spoke out Thursday against the prospect of a state takeover of theschool system. The comments came during a press conference on…
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Today is the anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
On this day in 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that separate was not in fact equal. Because of this decision, schools were desegregated across the United States, but mainly in the Jim Crow South. The AFT…
Teachers’ Union Pushes Facebook Owner Meta To Take Closer Look At ‘Harms’ To Children
Zachary Snowdon Smith May 4, 2022 Meta has done too little to prevent children from being harmed by content on its social media … KEY FACTS AFT President Randi Weingarten asked state and local pension fund trustees, whose funds hold $6.3 billion in Meta stock,…