Striking Denver teachers, district resume settlements
February 25, 2019
DENVER — Striking Denver teachers wearing red packed a library meeting room Tuesday for a public negotiating session with district leaders on the second day of a strike over pay. The meeting, facilitated by a federal mediator, was the first time the sides met since talks broke down over the weekend. Red is the color…
Striking Denver teachers to resume talks Wednesday, strike goes into third day
February 25, 2019
By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) – Thousands of Denver public school teachers will walk the picket lines for a third day on Wednesday, disrupting classes for about 92,000 students after union and school district officials ended talks with no deal in sight, union officials said. In the latest strike in a series to hit U.S.…
Denver instructors to strike for very first time in 25 years
February 25, 2019
Denver teachers are planning to strike Monday for the first time in 25 years after failed negotiations with the school district over base pay. The teachers union and Denver Public Schools met Saturday in an attempt to reach a new contract after more than a year of negotiations, but both sides left disappointed. The Denver…
Denver teacher strike reveals US divide over reward pay
February 25, 2019
DENVER (AP) — Denver teachers went on strike to improve their pay, but the fight wasn’t that simple. Emboldened by teacher activism nationwide and struggling to live in a rapidly growing city, Denver educators are challenging one of the nation’s oldest incentive pay systems, which is endorsed by the teachers union and education reform advocates…
Denver Denver instructor strike: What to understand before walkout Monday
February 24, 2019
CLOSE Denver teachers went on strike after failed negotiations with the school district over pay. The district plans to staff schools with administrators and substitutes. (Feb. 11) AP DENVER – When Jenna Jones told her third-graders why she planned to join a teacher strike Monday, several students at the predominately low-income school did their best to…
Denver Teachers Strike Ends After 3 Days
February 24, 2019
Revising the once mutually lauded performance-based teacher payment model known as ProComp was at the heart of the three-day teachers strike in Denver that ended in time for classes Thursday morning. The Denver Classroom Teachers Association and Denver Public Schools announced a tentative agreement early Thursday. An amended version of ProComp has a retroactive effective…
Denver’s public school instructors say benefit pay destroyed their salaries. Now, they’re battling back.
February 24, 2019
DENVER — Denver’s first teacher strike in 25 years extended into a third day Wednesday, after a marathon bargaining session Tuesday that ended around 11 p.m. with some signs of progress around the central issue of teacher pay structure. This strike is only the latest in the long and growing list of public school teacher…
The Latest: Denver teachers are back in classroom
February 24, 2019
DENVER (AP) — The Latest on the Denver teachers strike (all times local): 10:20 p.m. Denver teachers are back at work after reaching a deal to raise their pay, ending a three-day strike. Under a deal reached Thursday, the union said teachers would get a base pay raise of between 7 to 11 percent in…
New design anticipates U.S. communities most likely to gentrify, prescribes effective anti-displacement policies
February 24, 2019
A sociological model of gentrification. Credit: Journal of Urban Affairs A new research model allows urban planners, policymakers and community leaders to better focus resources to limit gentrification in vulnerable neighborhoods throughout the U.S. By examining the “people, place and policy” factors that determine whether a neighborhood will gentrify or not, the model offers a…
West Virginia instructors going on strike again
February 24, 2019
Charleston, W.Va. — Nearly a year to the day after West Virginia teachers went on a strike that launched a national “Red4Ed” movement, they’re doing it again. Unions have called a statewide walkout for Tuesday over complicated education legislation they view as lacking their input and as retaliation for last year’s strike. How long this…