Strike for the common good :
fighting for the future of public education /
Rebecca Kolins Givan and Amy Schrager Lang, editors.

Description

Related Names: Lang, Amy Schrager, editor.
Givan, Rebecca Kolins, 1975-, editor.
Language(s): English
Published: ©2020
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2020.
Subjects: Public schools > Public schools / United States.
Teachers > Teachers / Salaries, etc. > Teachers / Salaries, etc. / United States.
Strikes and lockouts > Strikes and lockouts / Teachers > Strikes and lockouts / Teachers / United States.
Summary: "Recent teacher walkouts affirm public education as a crucial public benefit and understand the rampant disinvestment in public education not simply as a local issue affecting teacher paychecks but also as a danger to communities and to democracy. In February 2018, 35,000 public school educators and staff walked off the job in West Virginia. More than 100,000 teachers in other states--both right-to-work states, like West Virginia, and those with a unionized workforce--followed them over the next year. From Arizona, Kentucky, and Oklahoma to Colorado and California, teachers announced to state legislators that not only their abysmal wages but the deplorable conditions of their work and the increasingly straitened circumstances of public education were unacceptable"--
Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Physical Description: xiv, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0472054724
9780472054725
0472074725
9780472074723
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