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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...

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...

Last year, 84 some special education teachers came to Las Vegas to teach special needs children at the Clark County School District. This year, another batch of special education teachers will be joining the newly recruited...

by Fleur Magbanua-Mansur PHOENIX — The streets of downtown Phoenix became a sea of red on Thursday, when approximately 50,000 teachers — including parents, students, and other supporters of Red for Ed — marched to the state capitol to protest...

Filipinos joining tens of thousands of Arizona teachers who are seeing red and are walking off their jobs this week to demand more funding for public education. They held a big protest today in Phoenix, as...

JERSEY CITY — A massive historic building that sits on top of a hill in downtown Jersey City opens its doors to 2,000 high school students every weekday. William Dickinson High School is the first public high...

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...