Marco Elizondo

Teachers stand up and fight

February 28, 2012

Teachers with Alliance/AFT of Dallas picketed outside the administration office of the Dallas Independent School district before the board meeting on Feb. 23.

Opposition grows to GOP schools proposal

February 13, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

The National Education Association and a wide range of other organizations are opposing the proposal by the House's ruling Republicans to rewrite federal education law and school aid.

Chicago Teachers Union: Black teachers, students most affected by school closings

February 9, 2012 By Teresa Albano

CHICAGO - Fed up with discrimination, the Chicago Teachers Union filed a complaint Feb. 9 with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charging the Board of Education's mass teacher layoffs last year unfairly impacted African American teachers.

1,000 rally in support of outspoken teacher, vs. bullying and cuts

March 15, 2011 By Ben Sears

Philadelphia residents rally for suspended teacher who critized school district plans to privatize eight public schools.

Resegregation opponents arrested in Raleigh

July 21, 2010 By Lincoln Whitehall

Nineteen protesters, including the Rev. William Barber II, president of the North Carolina NAACP, were arrested Tuesday in Raleigh at a school board meeting.