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Hundreds of teachers have crammed into the Oklahoma Capitol for the second day to press demands for additional funding for the state's public schools. Arizona teachers and education advocates shouts as they march at the Arizona Capitol highlighting low teacher pay and school funding Wednesday, March 28, 2018, in Phoenix.
Thousands of teachers from across Kentucky gather outside the state Capitol to rally for increased funding and to protest last minute changes to their state funded pension system, Monday, April 2, 2018, in Frankfort, Ky. Thousands filled the state Capitol in Kentucky on Monday to protest teacher pension changes, and schools were closed statewide in Oklahoma as thousands more educators rallied for increased education funding.
The Latest on teachers rallying for higher pay and more education funding in several Republican-led states across the U.S. : Oklahoma lawmakers will convene rare Friday sessions as protesting school teachers continue to fill the state Capitol and demand more funding for public education. Republican leaders of the state House and Senate said Thursday they will meet Friday to consider legislation to raise more money.
Some Oklahoma school districts say they will close for a fourth day in anticipation of a continued walkout by teachers demanding more funding for classrooms. OKLAHOMA CITY - When Oklahoma Republicans finally passed a massive tax hike for hundreds of millions of new dollars for public schools and teacher pay raises, they thought they would get a thank you.
When Oklahoma Republicans finally passed a massive tax hike for hundreds of millions of new dollars for public schools and teacher pay raises, they thought they would get a thank you.
OKLAHOMA CITY - The Latest on teachers rallying for higher pay and education funding in several Republican-led states across the U.S. : 1 p.m. Arizona teachers plan to take their calls for higher pay and education funding to the state Capitol for the fifth consecutive week. Save Our Schools Arizona plans a demonstration at the state Capitol Wednesday afternoon where they'll give state lawmakers "progress reports."
Thousands of teachers in Oklahoma and Kentucky walked off the job Monday morning, shutting down school districts as they protested cuts in pay, benefits and school funding. The state Capitol in Kentucky filled with teachers protesting pension changes and demanding increased school funding.
Oklahoma Education Association President Alicia Priest said during the rally that drew thousands to the state Capitol that teachers will continue pressing their demands for lawmakers to approve more funding for pay raises and classrooms. Teachers in Kentucky and Oklahoma rallied Monday to voice dissatisfaction with issues such as education funding and pensions.
Voters in Clarksburg will decide Thursday if they want to start down the path of creating an interstate school district. The single article at the special town meeting at 6:30 p.m. at Clarksburg School on Thursday will allow the town to enter into conversations with Stamford, Vt.
Tens of thousands of public school teachers in Kentucky and Oklahoma plan to attend rallies on Monday at their state capitols in what they hope will be the latest display of muscle by the nation's educators demanding higher wages and better classroom resources. The double demonstrations come less than a month after West Virginia teachers went on a nine-day strike that ended with the governor there signing legislation giving them a 5 percent pay hike - their first raise in four years.
Kentucky's second-largest school district has announced it will close Friday, following a vote by lawmakers to approve an overhaul of the state's public pension system. Fayette County Public Schools posted a message on its website that it would be closed Friday because more than a third of its employees would be out.
More Arkansas teachers will have access to computer science training and up to $2,000 in stipends after Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced an expansion of the continuing education program on Wednesday. The K-8 Computer Science Lead Teacher Stipend and Training Program was created in December with $500,000 in seed money; on Wednesday, Hutchinson added $300,000 to the program because interest in the initiative exceeded expectations.
Eschewing any mention of the corruption scandal that dogged him for years and put his political career in jeopardy, U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez launched his bid for a third term Wednesday, telling a cheering gymnasium full of high school students that "I am here because I am your vote."
A CNN student panel quickly devolved into cries of racism on Wednesday morning as the students discussed the implications of gun control. Anchor Alisyn Camerota moderated the panel of six high school students, but she quickly lost control as the children accused each other of racism and argued that the Second Amendment doesn't apply to people of color.
Facebook Has Had Countless Privacy Scandals. But This One Is Different. - Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal has everything: peculiar billionaires, a once-adored startup turned monolith, a political mercenary who resembles a Bond villain and his shadowy psychographic profiling firm U.S. Department of Commerce Announces Reinstatement of Citizenship Question to the 2020 Decennial Census - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that a question on citizenship status will be reinstated to the 2020 decennial census questionnaire to help enforce the Voting Rights Act .
A federal appeals court on Monday ruled against a Maine couple who wants to record the school day of their son with autism and a rare neurological disorder that affects his speaking ability. The parents say their 19-year-old son should be allowed to carry an audio recording device in class so they can ensure he's being treated properly because he can't tell them about his school day.
Mark Kelly , a retired astronaut, gun-control advocate and husband of former Arizona congresswoman Gabby Giffords , said Sunday that if students who organized the March for Our Lives can mobilize young people to vote, they could swing the 2018 midterms. Kelly told ABC News "This Week" Co-Anchor Martha Raddatz on Sunday that he talked to the student organizers of the massive march for gun control on Saturday, "and they have a plan ... This is not the last you're going to see of these kids."
Frenship Independent School District is honored to announce that two teachers, Brianne Katilus from Frenship HS Ninth Grade Center and Honey Segrist from Bennett Elementary, have been selected as winners of the Beaumont Foundation's 2018 Newton Excellence in Education Award as part of the Foundation's ongoing commitment to support education. Katilus, an English teacher at FHS NGC, has served the students of FISD for the past three years and has taught school a total of 15 years.
Thousands of high school students marched to the Minnesota State Capitol on March 7 to protest gun violence and pressure lawmakers to enact stricter gun control. The generation whose blood is being shed in school shootings is just beginning to flex its political might.
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