A New York City Palestinian teacher has been witch-hunted by the right-wing <em>New York Post</em> and Fox News for speaking out about the pro-Zionist information sent to teachers by the city’s schools chancellor, David Banks, an appointee of the Democratic Mayor Eric Adams.
From coast-to-coast, educators and school workers in the US are preparing strike action against falling wages, impossible workloads and unsafe schools as the bipartisan assault against public education deepens.
The Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee discussed with teachers the pivotal struggle of autoworkers, its connection to wider social and political issues, and the struggle against the UAW’s efforts to limit the strike.
Educators and children face years in substandard buildings only fit for demolition, with schools neither structurally sound nor safe from the spread of COVID.