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Public school teachers in Ohio recently got some surprising news in the mail: They were due a “credit” from their union.Melissa Cropper, president of the 20,000-member Ohio Federation of Teachers, was listed as the sender of the “CREDIT DUE…

When James Whitfield, the Black principal at Colleyville Heritage High School in Texas, wrote a letter to the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District in the days after the murder of George Floyd in 2020, he received only positive…

Hoping to prevent another school year from being upended by the pandemic, President Joe Biden visited a Washington middle school Friday to push his new Covid plan, accusing some Republican governors of being "cavalier" with the health of…

The two primary unions representing U.S. teachers have dropped their opposition to COVID-19 vaccine mandates, a reversal that could pave the way for more requirements that school staff be vaccinated as a condition of employment. The…

The president of a leading U.S. teachers union came out in support of vaccine mandates for teachers on Sunday. “As a matter of personal conscience, we need to be working with employers on vaccine mandates,” Randi Weingarten, head of the…