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

Published
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2020.
Copyright Date
©2020
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1 online resource
Additional Creators
Givan, Rebecca Kolins, 1975- and Lang, Amy Schrager
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"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"--
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9780472128402 electronic book
047212840X electronic book
Note
Includes index.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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