{"id":374155,"date":"2018-08-20T16:38:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T15:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/as-students-return-to-school-us-teachers-face-nationwide-struggle-to-defend-education\/"},"modified":"2018-08-20T16:38:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T15:38:11","slug":"as-students-return-to-school-us-teachers-face-nationwide-struggle-to-defend-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/as-students-return-to-school-us-teachers-face-nationwide-struggle-to-defend-education\/","title":{"rendered":"As students return to school, US teachers face nationwide struggle to defend education"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>As students return to school, US teachers face nationwide struggle to defend education<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Nancy Hanover<br \/>\n    <br \/>20 August 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>As the new school year begins across the United States, teachers are angry and determined. None of the demands teachers and school employees raised in last spring\u2019s strikes and protests in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Arizona, Kentucky, Colorado and North Carolina have been met. Many of the supposed gains touted by the teachers\u2019 unions have proven to be fictitious, and next to nothing has been done to restore the billions of dollars in education cuts carried out over the past decade.<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageFull\" style=\"width:480px; oveflow:hidden;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/asset\/52b948e0-a0bf-4b97-b37a-4fccc0ee014K\/image.jpg?rendition=image480\" srcset=\"\/asset\/52b948e0-a0bf-4b97-b37a-4fccc0ee014K\/image.jpg?rendition=image960 2x\" width=\"480\" style=\"width:480px;\" \/><span>West Virginia teachers protesting on the steps of the state capitol in Charleston<\/span><\/div>\n<p>It has not taken long for the claims of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and National Education Association (NEA) and their pseudo-left allies such as the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the International Socialist Organization (ISO) that the spring struggles resulted in \u201cvictories\u201d to be exposed as lies.<\/p>\n<p>In each state, teachers are returning to school facing broken promises. In West Virginia, there is no fix for health care funding under the Public Employee Insurance Agency. In Arizona, the $1 billion in school funding has not been restored and wage increases for many teachers have fallen far short of the contract terms announced by the unions.<\/p>\n<p>As the new school term begins, contract battles are ongoing in Seattle and Spokane, Washington. Teachers in the Los Angeles United School District, the second largest in the US, have been working without a contract for a year and negotiations are at an impasse. In New York City, the United Federation of Teachers has agreed to work under an expired contract until after the midterm elections, pointedly avoiding any action in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/08\/20\/teac-a20.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 As students return to school, US teachers face nationwide struggle to defend education By Nancy Hanover 20 August 2018 As the new school year begins across the United States, teachers are angry and determined. None of the demands teachers and school employees raised in last spring\u2019s strikes and protests in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Arizona, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-374155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}