filipino teachers

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...

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...

LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of faculty members from the United Teachers of Los Angeles office pick up thousands of signs and placards, which are expected be seen throughout the city on Thursday. “It is a last stand...

A Filipino teacher in Barstow, California is making unconventional waves in the field of mathematics. Dr. Peter Esperanza developed these free online math videos for teachers and students. “Numberbender” is Dr. Esperanza’s portal for his flipped...