From Labor Notes, a weekly report-card of teachers’ strikes, which are
spreading from state to state, with North Carolina – the laboratory for
gerrymander-fueled Republican takeover – next in line for a wave of
school closures.
Colorado teachers were not intimidated by thuggish arrest threats: they shut the state’s 10 largest school districts and picketed the legislature.
Georgia school bus drivers – more black and worse paid than the
striking teachers – walked out over serious grievances, only to have
their strike broken by a brutal crackdown that saw their leaders
imprisoned.
The AP polled Americans and found that “78 percent of Americans think teachers are paid too little.”
