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HONOLULU — Governor David Ige announced his proposal for a 20 percent pay cut for teachers and other public workers, to help offset what could possibly be a collapse in state tax collections amid the coronavirus...

SEATTLE, WA — Last Wednesday, Seattle became the first major public school district in the U.S. to shut down all its public schools until April 24th. Officials taking more drastic measures in preventing the spread of...

CARSON, CA — It’s that time of the year, when school is back in session. But as students prepare to hit the books, the National Federation of Filipino American Associations, or NaFFAA, is trying to find...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — It was a packed room full of parents, teachers, and members of the local community celebrating the opening of the Jose Antonio Vargas Elementary School in Mountain View, CA. This undocumented immigrant...

LAS VEGAS — The Clark County School District in Southern Nevada recently hired 57 special education teachers from all over the Philippines — and they’re not the first. Back in 2017, 84 special ed teachers from...

DALLAS, TX — What started out as a dream to come to America and have a better life has turned into a nightmare for about 70 Filipino teachers, who were recruited from the Philippines by the...

It was a historic 14-day teacher’s strike in the San Francisco Bay Area, and it finally ended with a new contract that raises teachers’ salaries. Close to 600 teachers and school staff of the New Haven...

by Mary Estacion, ABS-CBN News This time last year, they were slated to head back to the Philippines. “It’s hard to face the fact that you’re going home because there’s no certainty.  People say we’re going...

UNION CITY, CA — It has been one week since teachers in the San Francisco area walked out of their classrooms in protest for better wages. This was the scene after a scheduled school board meeting...

LOS ANGELES — While a massive teacher strike has since ended, there are still many teachers not going back into the class room, teachers from 3 charter schools also took the streets. While 30,000 Los Angeles Unified...