1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (874+ words) Teachers at Overnewton Anglican Community College, an independent P-12 school in Melbourne’s western suburbs, have voted to take industrial action for the first time in the school’s history. This is a further indication, following strikes in government schools across Australia, that…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (806+ words) The Committee for Public Education (CFPE) urges all Victorian public school teachers and education support (ES) staff—union and non-union alike—to vote No in the all-staff ballot on the latest version of the sellout agreement struck between the state…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (772+ words) On August 26, Dylan Kupsh, a 27-year-old doctoral candidate in computer science, filed suit against the Regents of the University of California, two student-conduct administrators and UCLA Police Captain Jeffrey Chobanian, alleging a two-year campaign in retaliation for his open and…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (774+ words) The Committee for Public Education (CFPE) recently convened two emergency meetings of rank-and-file committees (RFCs), the Victorian Educators RFC and a combined meeting of the Western Sydney University and Macquarie University RFCs. Both meetings passed a resolution unanimously condemning the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (809+ words) Will Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate for president of the United Auto Workers, issued a statement Tuesday to roughly 100,000 UAW academic workers returning to campuses across the United States, calling for rank-and-file committees linking university and industrial…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1008+ words) A recent analysis of National Assessment Program-Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) test results confirms that the gap between the richest and poorest school students is widening and growing faster in Australia. Molina noted that “many research studies and decades of school…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1249+ words) Public school educators in the Australian state of Queensland are voicing their anger at the misleading claim by the Queensland Teachers Union (QTU) that they had a “significant win” last week when the state’s industrial relations tribunal granted a supposed…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (895+ words) From September 3, Victorian public school educators will vote in an all staff ballot on a four-year sellout agreement struck between the state Labor government and the Australian Education Union that inflicts another real wage cut and does nothing to address…...