Negotiations for new contracts are on pause until at least Thursday, when thousands of nurses are scheduled to return to work after walking off the job this past Monday.
When Minneapolis teachers settled a 14-day strike in March, they celebrated a groundbreaking provision in their new contract that was meant to shield teachers of color from seniority-based layoffs and help ensure that students from racial minorities have teachers who look like them. Months later, conservative media outlets have erupted with denunciations of the policy…