School quarantines pop up across Georgia, Cherokee still hot spot

(Georgia Recorder 8/12/20)

Many teachers are also concerned about reopening plans but are afraid to speak out because of threats of retaliation, said Verdaillia Turner, president of the Georgia Federation of Teachers.

“We do have many teachers who are concerned, especially teachers who have families of their own,” she said. “The majority of teachers won’t say anything. We’re glad there are some teachers that are speaking out.

“Children can be asymptomatic, but it can spread through children,” she said. “What would be the problem

The AFT’s flexible blueprint for imagining a new normal for public education, public health and our society

Until a vaccine is developed for COVID-19, each community is going to need support in charting a path to safely and responsibly reopen school buildings and other institutions crucial to the well-being and economic vitality of our communities.

The AFT’s detailed, science-based “Plan to Safely Reopen America’s Schools and Communities” features five core pillars based on the science as well as educator and healthcare expertise—not on politics or wishful thinking.

To gradually reopen, we need

Don’t Forfeit Our Future; We Need Federal Aid to States, Communities and Schools to Protect Essential Services and Reopen the Economy

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Don’t Forfeit Our Future

COVID-19 is triggering state and local budget crises across the nation, especially in Louisiana. Our state and local governments are facing decreased revenue while simultaneously incurring huge new costs as they seek to contain and treat the coronavirus and respond to the virus-induced spike in joblessness and related human needs. 

We cannot get back to work, back to school and back to our future without critical investments, and without ensuring workers have a voice in that process. For too long, teachers have been asked to do too much with too little

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Georgia Federation of Teachers seeks answers regarding the superintendent search and selection process from the DeKalb County Board of Education

Atlanta, GA – Today, the Georgia Federation of Teachers submitted an Open Records Request to DeKalb County Schools Board of Education about

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ATLANTA— Statement from Verdaillia Turner, President, Georgia Federation of Teachers on the announcement of Lisa Herring as new Superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools

We have not had the opportunity to meet the board’s candidate, Lisa Herring, but we welcome her to Atlanta, and we look forward to sincere and honest dialogue about the direction of our school system.

We were not surprised that the selection process, like other processes utilized by the

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2020 Legislative Agenda

Say “YES” to: 

HB 513, Sponsored by Representative Sandra Scott

• Relating to public school property and facilities, so as to prohibit a local school system from leasing or selling a public school in such system to a private entity unless such public school has been in existence for at least 15 years; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

HB 181, Sponsored by Representative Billy Mitchell

• Relating to the "Charter Schools Act of 1998," so as to provide that the initial term or any renewal term of a

Many American education policies reinforce the inadequacies of our approach to education: the misues of standardized testing, the narrowing of the curriculum, the emphasis on competition over collaboration, and other top-down reforms that have divested parents and teachers of input and have led to inadequate support and difficult conditions - all producing rampant teacher turnover. 

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PISA is the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment. Every three years it tests 15-year-old students from all over the world in reading, mathematics and science. The tests are designed to gauge how well the students master key subjects in order to be prepared for real-life situations in the adult world.

Excellence and Equity in Education (Volume I)
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Policies and Practices for Successful Schools (Volume II)
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Students' Well-Being (Volume III)
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Students' Financial Literacy (Volume IV)
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Collaborative Problem Solving (Volume V)
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The bad news is most state education systems are falling dangerously behind the world in a number of international comparisons and on our own National Assessment of Educational Progress, leaving the United States overwhelmingly underprepared to succeed in the 21st century economy.

The U.S. workforce, widely acknowledged to be the best educated in the world half a century ago, is now among the least well-educated in the world, according to recent studies.

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