Teacher strikes have swept across the United States. In the last 13 months, K-12 educators in places as diverse as West Virginia, Oklahoma, Colorado, and California have protested for better pay and better resources. But this isn’t just about money. It’s a fight for the future of public education, and charter schools are at the center of it. Lou explains.
SOURCES & FURTHER READING
Economic Policy Institute’s paper on “The Teacher Pay Penalty”
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities on “A Punishing Decade for School Funding”
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National Education Association on “Teacher Compensation: Fact vs. Fiction”
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Pew Research on “U.S. students’ academic achievement still lags that of their peers in many other countries.”
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CNN on “Here's what teachers accomplished with their protests this year”
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Writer: Louis Foglia
Editor: m.cho
Researcher: Page Ellerson
Supervising Producer: Allison Brown
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