{"id":393964,"date":"2019-01-24T05:49:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T04:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/an-oklahoma-teacher-speaks-on-the-los-angeles-educators-strike\/"},"modified":"2019-01-24T05:49:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T04:49:19","slug":"an-oklahoma-teacher-speaks-on-the-los-angeles-educators-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/an-oklahoma-teacher-speaks-on-the-los-angeles-educators-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"An Oklahoma teacher speaks on the Los Angeles educators strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>An Oklahoma teacher speaks on the Los Angeles educators strike<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Andrea Peters<br \/>\n    <br \/>23 January 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p> \u201cWe support the LA teachers,\u201d an Oklahoma biology teacher told the <em>World Socialist Web Site<\/em>, speaking for her coworkers in the Oklahoma public school system. Deini is a veteran of the two-week-long strike of educators last April which spread throughout the southwestern state\u2014the first such walkout in over 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201cWhat I hear is [LA] teachers are upset and concerned about are the same things [we are]. Honestly, a small part is about teacher salary. This is not an educator\u2019s biggest concern.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEducation is just underfunded. There are huge classrooms with 30-40 kids. We do our best, but the toll is taken on the kids. We\u2019re trying to teach, but the students can\u2019t find a place to sit in the classroom. In some districts, there are textbooks that are taped together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She solidarized herself with the struggle against Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Austin Beutner\u2019s plan for portfolio schools and growing privatization. \u201cAlways as a teacher I want every student out there to get an education. If you\u2019re going to charter schools, is every student really going to get the same thing?\u201d Deini asked.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma has itself been a testing ground for the \u201cportfolio model\u201d of education with which Beutner, together with the pro-privatization Broad Foundation, is identified. With generous foundation funding earmarked for the purpose, Tulsa Public Schools has established a \u201cdirector of portfolio management\u201d to promote \u201cpartnerships\u201d with charter schools. Likewise, the cash-strapped school districts in the state implemented the Gates Teacher Effectiveness Model (TLE) value-added teacher evaluations, A-F grading of schools and third-grade&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/01\/23\/okla-j23.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 An Oklahoma teacher speaks on the Los Angeles educators strike By Andrea Peters 23 January 2019 \u201cWe support the LA teachers,\u201d an Oklahoma biology teacher told the World Socialist Web Site, speaking for her coworkers in the Oklahoma public school system. Deini is a veteran of the two-week-long strike of educators last April which [&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-393964","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\/393964","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=393964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}