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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 — 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...

The massive Los Angeles teacher’s strikes continued this week. As 30,000 educators continued to call for higher wages,  increased staffing and lower classroom sizes, the United Teachers Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Unified School District ...

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...