{"id":398539,"date":"2019-03-08T05:49:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T04:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/kentucky-teachers-sickout-closes-states-largest-district\/"},"modified":"2019-03-08T05:49:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T04:49:29","slug":"kentucky-teachers-sickout-closes-states-largest-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/kentucky-teachers-sickout-closes-states-largest-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky teachers\u2019 sickout closes state\u2019s largest district"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h4>Union describes walkout as \u201cdisruptive\u201d<\/h4>\n<h2>Kentucky teachers\u2019 sickout closes state\u2019s largest district<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Naomi Spencer<br \/>\n    <br \/>7 March 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Louisville, Kentucky area teachers carried out a \u201csickout\u201d action Wednesday, March 6, affecting more than 100,000 students and forcing a closure of the state\u2019s largest school district. The mass action, organized by a new group calling itself \u201cJCPS Leads,\u201d forced Jefferson County Public Schools to cancel school for the second time in the space of a week.<\/p>\n<p>Overflow crowds, dressed in red, have continued to jam hearings at the state legislature in Frankfort to oppose a raft of anti-public education bills. On February 28, schools were also closed in Jefferson, Fayette, Carter, Madison, and Berea Counties after teachers called out sick en masse to protest HB 525, which would change oversight of the teacher retirement system.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday\u2019s powerful \u201csickout\u201d was predictably attacked by Republican Governor Matt Bevin who maligned it as \u201ca handful of activists\u201d interested in money and power. But, increasingly worried that the growing anger of teachers is moving outside their control, the local affiliate of the Kentucky Education Association echoed such slanders, calling the sickouts \u201cdisruptive\u201d and \u201cundermining\u201d community support.<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageFull\" style=\"width:480px; oveflow:hidden;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/asset\/2907ada4-456b-4d8a-b119-738f614f39dC\/image.jpg?rendition=image480\" srcset=\"\/asset\/2907ada4-456b-4d8a-b119-738f614f39dC\/image.jpg?rendition=image960 2x\" width=\"480\" style=\"width:480px;\" \/><span>Kentucky teachers protest at the state capitol<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The Jefferson County Teachers Association\u2019s (JCTA) statements prompted a firestorm of outrage among teachers. Commenting on Facebook, one teacher said, \u201cWow JCTA. Way to immediately throw the teachers you represent under the bus. Every parent response I was reading last night was in FULL support of teachers. We finally get them on our side and you throw us to the wolves. Shame on you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many other similar statements followed including,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/03\/07\/kent-m07.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Union describes walkout as \u201cdisruptive\u201d Kentucky teachers\u2019 sickout closes state\u2019s largest district By Naomi Spencer 7 March 2019 Louisville, Kentucky area teachers carried out a \u201csickout\u201d action Wednesday, March 6, affecting more than 100,000 students and forcing a closure of the state\u2019s largest school district. The mass action, organized by a new group calling [&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-398539","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\/398539","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=398539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}