American Federation of Teachers

'Rebalancing' plan for college officials' pay draws protests

2013-04-16 20:03:00

A Los Angeles Community College District proposal to lower the car allowances given to campus presidents and other executives — but use the money to boost salaries — has come under fire at a time when many students are unable to get classes...

Letters: Focus on kids, not tests

2013-04-06 00:00:00

Re "Cheating is cheating," Editorial, April 3 You accuse us of weakening our condemnation of test score tampering in Atlanta because we also condemned the climate created by policymakers' fixation on standardized tests. Cheating is cheating. It should...

Atlanta test scores: Cheating is cheating

2013-04-03 00:00:00

If a student cheats on an important test, such as a midterm, he is punished, and rightly so. His teacher doesn't merely brush aside the offense and blame it on all the stressful and unnecessary high-stakes tests that today's unfortunate students are...

Michelle Rhee, 'a public school parent'?

2013-03-29 07:05:00

SACRAMENTO -- In the course of reporting a story about Michelle Rhee, the controversial former District of Columbia chancellor seeking to take her brand of education reform to statehouses across the country, the Los Angeles Times asked her spokeswoman a...

L.A. school board election: Garcia, Zimmer maintain early leads

2013-03-06 00:24:18

L.A. school board election: Zimmer maintains slim lead

2013-03-06 01:22:59

ABCs, 1-2-3s and swipes: News Corp. launching tablet for schools

2013-03-06 09:09:00

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is set to unveil a tablet computer for public schools on Monday�at the SXSWedu education technology conference in Austin, Texas, Bloomberg reports. The $299, 10-inch tablet is the brainchild of Amplify, News Corp.'s...

School board election: Split decision for Deasy; 3rd race to runoff

2013-03-06 09:43:46

Late donations bolster pro-Deasy school board candidates

2013-03-05 05:02:41

L.A. teachers union wins grant for school-reform model

2013-02-08 18:13:09

L.A. Unified and charter groups win teacher evaluation grants

2012-09-28 07:03:23

Obama outspends Romney on campaign advertising

2012-09-21 00:00:00

WASHINGTON — President Obama pumped three times more money into media ads than Republican challenger Mitt Romney last month as both candidates dramatically stepped up their spending, racing through as much money as they brought in. August marked...

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten supports U.S. Senate candidate Democrat Chris Murphy at a campaign rally at the Hartford Federation of Teachers building Saturday morning.

2012-11-03 00:00:00

American Federation of Teachers organizer Samantha Jordan struggles to carry a box informational papers to hand outside schools at strike headquarters at 1642 W. Van Buren in Chicago.

2012-09-18 00:00:00

Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis, right, hugs Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers during a rally in Chicago on the second day of the Chicago teachers strike.

2012-09-11 00:00:00