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Negotiations Breakdown: PASSHE Sets Stage for First Ever Faculty Strike

Negotiations Breakdown: PASSHE Sets Stage for First Ever Faculty Strike

Faculty union members at the 14 Pennsylvania state-owned universities (PASSHE) have had just about enough. Following three consecutive days of marathon negotiating sessions on Tuesday and more sessions scheduled for Wednesday and beyond, faculty members were showing signs of optimism that a deal might not be that far off. However, after PASSHE continued to put proposals on the table that APSCUF…

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Cheyney U's "Bleak Future?": Rick Smith Talks to APSCUF President about Auditor General's Report:

Cheyney U’s “Bleak Future?”: Rick Smith Talks to APSCUF President about Auditor General’s Report:

Yesterday, Pennsylvania’s Auditor General Eugene DePasquale issued a report that should be a clarion call for action concerning the future of the nation’s first historically black university: Cheyney Univesity. The summary of the report began:

Auditor General Eugene DePasquale today said that the future of historic Cheyney University in Chester County is bleak and projected to worsen, unless…

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#PhlEd: Student Involved in Philly Student Union Action on Wednesday Night Speaks Out

#PhlEd: Student Involved in Philly Student Union Action on Wednesday Night Speaks Out

Editor’s Note: Earlier today, Ruby Jane Anderson sent us the following about why she and other members of the Philadelphia Student Union disrupted the Philadelphia School Reform Commission’s showing of the anti-union movie, Won’t Back Down. 

  Yesterday, the School Reform Commission held a movie night in honor of Parent Appreciation Month. The movie they chose to screen, Won’t Back Down, is an…

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#StudentsForTeachers: Philly Students Strike in Support of Teachers

#StudentsForTeachers: Philly Students Strike in Support of Teachers

Early this morning, students in the Philadelphia School District began walking out their school buildings as part of a student strike in support of their teachers. On Monday – one day after World Teachers Day – the Philadelphia School Reform Commission took the unprecedented move of calling a surprise meeting for the sole purpose of cancelling the teachers’ contract in order to imposed their…

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#StudentsForTeachers: Storify of Philly Student Strike Early Morning

#StudentsForTeachers: Storify of Philly Student Strike Early Morning

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#PhlEd RIGHT NOW: Caucus of Working Educators Calls for 4pm Rally at Gov. Corbett's Philly Office

#PhlEd RIGHT NOW: Caucus of Working Educators Calls for 4pm Rally at Gov. Corbett’s Philly Office

If you are in or around Philadelphia today, get down to 200 Broad Street at 4pm this afternoon to protest the School Reform Commission’s move to unilaterally cancel Philly Teacher’s Contract. Fhollow #PhlEd and @CaucusofWE for up-to-the-minute information.

  Outraged by today’s SRC decision? Meet @ 4 pm, @GovCorbett‘s office. 200 S. Broad St. Bring your signs and your voice! #phled

— Caucus of…

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Labor Day Assignment: Educating the Uninformed

Labor Day Assignment: Educating the Uninformed

It’s Labor Day weekend, the schools have been in session about a week, and the disgruntled voices of a minority drone on. Their screeching refrain, often in letters to the editor and talk show call-ins, is familiar:

Teachers only work half a year.

Teachers are overpaid.

Local school districts and their taxpayers shouldn’t have to hold the burden of teacher salaries.

Often, those who complain the…

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#ByeByeTom: It's Corbett's Education Record, Not Sandusky, Stupid!

#ByeByeTom: It’s Corbett’s Education Record, Not Sandusky, Stupid!

To mimic Bill Clinton, it’s Corbett’s education record, stupid.

While there is some merit that  Kathleen Kane’s well timed Jerry Sandusky report, like a week before the election, will harm Tom Corbett’s reelection ambitions, Corbett’s fate has been sealed since his attacks on public education and public higher education in his 2011 budget, and the latest round of polling shows this.

As everyone…

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