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appalachiablue

(41,144 posts)
Mon Apr 2, 2018, 01:13 PM Apr 2018

Oklahoma and Kentucky Teachers To Walk Out

Source: CNN

Oklahoma and Kentucky teachers are walking off the job Monday and holding rallies at their state capitols to pressure lawmakers. Inspired by the West Virginia strike in which teachers demanded and got a pay raise from state leaders, a wave of other states, including Oklahoma, Kentucky and Arizona, are taking similar action.
Educators are organizing and publicly pressuring state lawmakers over issues such as education funding, teacher salaries and pension reform. Teachers in Oklahoma are rallying for more education funding and salaries, and those in Kentucky will be marching over a controversial pension bill and the state budget.

Oklahoma

Teachers plan to rally in Oklahoma City on Monday morning. The dispute has resulted in the closure of several school districts across the state, including Oklahoma City Public Schools, its largest district. It's unclear how long the walkout may last. "We will be back in the schools when our members tell us to," Alicia Priest, president of the Oklahoma Education Association, told CNN. Teachers say they've reached a breaking point over funding and salaries.
Last week, legislators approved a measure that includes a $6,100 pay raise for teachers. Priest said the pay raise is a "good starting point."
The OEA had called for $10,000 pay raises for teachers over the next three years and $5,000 pay raises for full-time support professionals such as custodians, secretaries, bus drivers and food service workers. Oklahoma is among the bottom three states for teacher salaries.

"This isn't just about teacher salaries," David DuVall, executive director of OEA, told CNN. "This is about funding our schools for our students," Priest told CNN that educators are working in classrooms without full sets of textbooks and that some of the books are more than 20 years old, affecting the quality of education for students. Although House Bill 1010XX, which was signed into law by Gov. Mary Fallin last week, provides education funding, she said that the $50 million in the bill "will buy less than one textbook per student in Oklahoma."
"We've been cut over 28% in the last 10 years in education funding, and our schools just can't maintain all of the supplies, instructional materials, textbooks, even copy paper. Copies are limited in schools to maybe 30 a week," she said.

Kentucky

In Kentucky, the rally begins 9 a.m. ET in Frankfort, and participants plan to march to the state Capitol. "Thousands" are expected to rally Monday as a result of the passage of the pension reform bill, Chris Main, spokesman for Kentucky Education Association, told CNN.
In a surprise move last week, the state lawmakers passed a pension reform bill by tucking the measure into a Senate bill that had previously been about sewage system...



Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/oklahoma-and-kentucky-teachers-to-walk-out/ar-AAvmUq3



Article published 4 hrs. ago.



Teacher Unrest Spreads to Oklahoma



Teacher signs in Kentucky, "Don't Forget, We Vote"
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TranssexualKaren

(364 posts)
2. The revolution will not be televised!!!
Mon Apr 2, 2018, 01:24 PM
Apr 2018

It’s happening in the form of a million different actions, insignificant by themselves but mighty when put together!

avebury

(10,952 posts)
4. We were cautioned to get to work early in order to have a
Mon Apr 2, 2018, 01:36 PM
Apr 2018

parking space and to bring our lunches so that we didn't have to leave the building. Wouldn't you know it, the side street by our building as a lot of food trucks so there ended up being some food options within walking distance/

appalachiablue

(41,144 posts)
6. Always works that way but glad you had ample chow. You're in KY or OK?
Mon Apr 2, 2018, 01:49 PM
Apr 2018

- USA Today, UPDATE 1:00 PM, Est -

Larry Cagle, an English teacher at Thomas Edison Preparatory High School in Tulsa, was one of thousands of teachers gathered at the Capitol in Oklahoma City.
"We've gotten tired of begging for everything," said Cagle, a co-founder of Oklahoma Teachers United. "Teachers, students and the community have decided enough is enough."
Oklahoma ranks near the bottom among states in average pay for its teachers. The teachers are striking despite a $6,100 pay raise signed into law last week by Gov. Mary Fallin. Oklahoma Education Association President Alicia Priest called the legislation a "down payment." The association, the state's largest teacher union, is calling for $10,000 raises over three years, $5,000 raises for bus drivers, custodians and other staff, and restoration of tens of millions of dollars in education funding trimmed in recent years.

More: All 120 county school districts close in Kentucky as teachers rally
More: Teachers across Oklahoma to strike Monday despite $6K raise
Frank Solomon, superintendent of Noble Public Schools, said he's had to cut the speech and drama programs in his high schools and push back buying buses and air conditioners...Con't.
USA Today, "Teacher Strikes Shut Down Schools Across OK, KY Update", April 2, 18
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/04/02/teacher-strikes-shut-down-schools-across-oklahoma-kentucky/478102002

Staph

(6,251 posts)
9. As a proud West Virginian and
Mon Apr 2, 2018, 02:30 PM
Apr 2018

sister to two teachers and aunt to a third, I love the sign!

I saw a similar sign in coverage of the early days of the Kentucky teachers' walkout. Now the Arizona teachers show that they are aware of who started this movement for reasonable teacher pay and benefits.



appalachiablue

(41,144 posts)
13. Hi Staph, I also liked this sign about the West By God Virginia teachers!
Mon Apr 2, 2018, 08:11 PM
Apr 2018

They initiated the momentum and solidarity in protests for improved teacher pay and conditions. Besides the US, the activism has spread to educators on three continents- in So. America, Europe and Africa. Go teachers of the world!

Teachers' Rebellion Spreads on Four Continents
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/03/28/teac-m28.html

"The Devil Is Here In These Hills," by James Green (2016) on the early 20th c. mine wars in WV. The battle of Blair Mountain in 1921 in sw WVa. involved 10,000 striking coal miners and was the largest labor uprising in US history. Blair Mountain was also the biggest armed insurrection since the Civil War.



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avebury

(10,952 posts)
10. Oklahoma
Mon Apr 2, 2018, 03:48 PM
Apr 2018

The leaves are out on the trees so we couldn't see what the crowd looked like from our building. From what I heard from a friend, the Capitol is prepared for 5 days of protests. I don't know what will happen if they go longer.

I have to go out in the field Wednesday and I thought, oh drat, will there be parking when we get back? Then I remembered, I am not the one driving so I will just sit back and not worry about it. Hopefully the car that they have signed out is located in the parking area that does not have public access and then it won't be a problem.

appalachiablue

(41,144 posts)
11. Good luck and I hope this week is successful for OK teachers. Or next week,
Mon Apr 2, 2018, 05:52 PM
Apr 2018

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if it comes to that. So glad to see the uplift spirits and great organization and determination of these walk outs.

avebury

(10,952 posts)
15. Talk is cheap, show me an action plan that can acutally work.
Tue Apr 3, 2018, 03:47 PM
Apr 2018

Oklahoma has gone through several "plans" to solve the education budget problem (including a lottery). Have any of them actually worked? Obviously not. Why? They failed to identify the problem and come up with a concrete plan to solve it. They are also dealing with an overwhelmingly Republican state legislature who aren't willing to make the changes necessary to increase the State's revenues. Guess what, a huge chunk of these Republicans are running for re-election UNOPPOSED. If they continue to run UNOPPOSED, what incentive is there for them to make the changes necessary to increase the State's revenues? If teachers really want to change things in Oklahoma, maybe they might want to consider talking some of their retired colleagues into running for office. It is easy to complain and protest it is more difficult to identify some actual action plans that might pay off in the long run.

They should take a leaf out of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS students' playbook. If they want change, find new candidates and vote out the current Legislators so that we can actually stop wasting time passing unconstitutional laws (which the AGs office will defend in court - what a waste of money) and actually work on ways to increase the State's revenues. I don't understand why they have never gone after the Legislators in the past because that is the obvious first plan to put it play.


the_sly_pig

(741 posts)
7. Just think of the show of power....
Mon Apr 2, 2018, 02:15 PM
Apr 2018

If teachers walked out nation-wide. That would be the beginning of a revolution.

Initech

(100,080 posts)
12. $400 million in unnecessary firearms. $0 in actually improving our quality of education.
Mon Apr 2, 2018, 06:31 PM
Apr 2018

God bless America!

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