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Akron Public Schools teachers’ strike could hurt everyone, especially our kids

This opinion article represents the views of the Akron Beacon Journal’s editorial board, including editors and four citizen members.

Akron’s children deserve more than a teachers’ strike interrupting their educations.

They also won’t learn much from the more online instructions, the troubling strike plan put forth by the Akron Public Schools to maintain education as required by law. If remote instruction with regular teachers presented learning challenges during the pandemic’s early days, how can temporary teachers possibly deliver meaningful instruction?

We’re reluctant to take sides in this complex dispute, but we will strongly advocate for children of this community.

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10 Unforgivable Sins Of AEA INTENDS TO STRIKE ON JAN. 9 AFTER FAILED MEDIATION ATTEMPTS STRATEGIES FOR BEGINNERS

AKRON, Ohio — Akron Public Schools Board of Education had a closed-door meeting Thursday evening to discuss the Akron Education Association’s notice to strike, released Thursday morning.

Akron teachers will strike on Jan. 9 with picking beginning that morning, after attempts at resolving outstanding issues through federal mediation failed.

Pat Shipe, the president of the Akron Education Association, stated, “The Akron community’s outpouring of concerns regarding school safety and security are being ignored by Akron Public Schools. Weeks of unparalleled fighting are now occurring daily within Akron school buildings, yet the superintendent and the board continue to want to water

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2022 saw conservative gains on education issues. But they may be short-lived.

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FILE – Light illuminates part of the Supreme Court building at dusk on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Files)

On the surface, it seems like 2022 was a year of conservative triumph in the courts and in schools, as US Supreme Court decisions about religion and education joined other precedent-smashing opinions about abortion rights and gun control. The school decisions seemed to fulfill long-held conservative dreams about pushing prayer back into public classrooms and diverting tax funding to explicitly religious schools.

But looking at the language of these rulings — especially Justice Neil M. Gorsuch’s

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Richland, WA school board votes to define ‘controversial’ issues

The Richland School District Administration building on Keene Road in West Richland is lit up at night.

The Richland School District Administration building on Keene Road in West Richland is lit up at night.


Jennifer King

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Richlands, WA

The Richland School Board, in a split vote, revised its policies on the teaching of “controversial issues” in the classroom.

A majority of the board said they wanted to give principals and teachers a better sense of when to alert parents about an upcoming lesson or discussion that could involve a “controversial” topic.

The policy doesn’t actually bar the teaching of the topic. A previously rejected definition was denounced by the ACLU of Washington.

The board defines controversial

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Expect more attacks on public education in Virginia 2023

Del. Marcus Simon, D-Fairfax, expects to be playing defense during the upcoming General Assembly session, at least when it comes to the ongoing push by Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Republicans in the state legislature to carry out a culture war crusade in state education.

“Democrats are going to be a little bit on our heels again, trying to protect the progress that we’ve made,” Simon said, “against efforts to redefine obscenity, to limit access to educational materials and to elevate the desires of some parents under the guise of ‘parental rights’ over what’s really best for students and parents all

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