The suit, which was filed this week in Los Angeles County Superior Court, accuses the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) of breaching its responsibility to students by letting teachers dictate when schools shuttered amid Covid-19 pandemic can reopen. The other defendants, the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) union and …
Read More »How convenient: Teachers union leader battles to keep schools closed… while on vacation in the Caribbean
Union area vice president Sarah Chambers has been claiming that re-opening Chicago’s public schools next Monday would put students, teachers and the wider public at risk due to widespread Covid-19 infections. But these apparent concerns for public health didn’t stop her jetting off to Puerto Rico, despite the small Caribbean …
Read More »Teachers should be at the front of the queue for Covid vaccine… if UK schools shut again it will be a national disgrace
It may be uplifting to see beloved British octogenarians receiving the first of the Covid-19 vaccine jabs, but surely immunising teachers and school children would be far more effective in drastically cutting infection rates across the country? If we can just get to grips with containing the spread of the …
Read More »Teachers in Norway say they’re afraid to show Prophet Mohammed cartoons to students, and worry about personal consequences
The anxieties among Norwegian teachers were reported by the industry publication Utdanningsnytt, which surveyed people in the aftermath of last month’s beheading of French teacher Samuel Paty. Some teachers had earlier spoken publicly about their fears and the outlet wanted to probe how widespread those sentiments were. Of the 2,000 …
Read More »In Chechnya, teachers require “more review” for Kadyrov
In Chechnya school teachers were obliged to write comments in social networks in support of the head of the Republic Ramzan Kadyrov, after the introduction against his family of U.S. sanctions, according to “Caucasian knot”. Media refers to several teachers from different districts of Chechnya. So, according to the teacher …
Read More »In North Ossetia, teachers are forced to donate money to support doctors and victims
In North Ossetia, teachers are forced to donate money to support doctors and affected by the epidemic of the coronavirus, write “Open media” with reference to teachers. As told the publication Director of one of the national schools, all employees of educational institutions should be handed over to the Ministry …
Read More »In St. Petersburg high school students said that the teachers forbade them to sing in wigs and skirts
“Our school will not promote homophobia and homosexuality” In St. Petersburg high school students said that the teachers forbade them to sing in wigs and skirts High school student from the 375-th school of St. Petersburg said that the English teacher forbade him and his classmates to sing a song …
Read More »Russian teachers spoke in defense of defendants in the “Moscow business”
Russian teachers published an open letter in defense of defendants in the “Moscow business”. On 18 September under the document was signed by 267 teachers. The letter emphasized that the sentences to protesters unjust and violate the Constitution, is a “flagrant lawlessness”. Power, according to the authors of the letter, …
Read More »Sobyanin: the average salary of teachers in Moscow schools is 114 thousand rubles
The average salary of teachers in Moscow schools for the first six months of 2019 amounted to 114 thousand. This, speaking at the town meeting in the framework of the Moscow international forum “City of education” at ENEA, said the mayor Sergey Sobyanin, reports “Interfax”. Sobyanin also reminded that at …
Read More »Ministry of education plans to collect a full dossier on teachers, students and parents
Data on offenses, driver license, and social networks The Ministry of education and Ministry digital development of the Russian Federation has prepared a draft order approving the establishment of the Federal platform digital educational environment (TSOs). According to “Kommersant”, in addition to describing the goals and principles of operation of …
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