Fil-Am teacher

SAN FRANCISCO — Like millions of families in the Filipina American entrepreneur Paloma Concordia has been under shelter-in-place orders with her family for the third straight week, amid the coronavirus pandemic. She and her husband Artnelson...

NEW YORK — Using wooden yardsticks, cereal boxes, his cell phone and a laptop – Fil-Am math teacher Ram Buenaventura live streams his classes to his students while in the safety of their own homes amid...

HONOLULU, HI — Four Hawaii public school teachers were recently awarded with one of the nation’s most prestigious honors for teachers: the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, or PAEMST. One of them...

OAKLAND, CA — Filipino-American educators are among the thousands who are involved in the Oakland teachers strike. Better pay, smaller class sizes, and other issues essential to students — these are the main reasons why thousands of...

LOS ANGELES — A strike 20 months in the making. Thousands of teachers, students, and allies marched out of the classroom demanding higher wages, smaller classroom sizes, and support staff in the nation’s second-largest school district. Many...

SAN FRANCISCO — The annual conference of the Association for Asian American Studies saw over 1,100 registrants, its biggest conference to date, and is the primary research and teaching hub for this academic field. The number of...

SAN MATEO, CA — It is in this room where Ligaya Avenida and her team sort out countless applications from Filipino educators hoping to teach in the US. Avenida — who was once a teacher in the...

LAS VEGAS — For decades, the Philippines was the breeding ground of trained nurses for the United States. Today, the nation has become the number one source for foreign-skilled teachers for Clark County. Grappling with the teacher shortage...

By Balitang America Staff, ABS-CBN North America Bureau Aug. 27, 2014 REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – The number of charges against a San Francisco Bay area Fil-Am teacher who was arrested in March for allegedly molesting his...