Denver Teachers Strike Over Base Pay
Teachers hold this country together in more ways than teaching kids. Some of the stories this morning, of kids going to school without staff have been pretty interesting. "Bedlam" and "unsafe" was used to describe some.
More power to them.Denver schoolteachers are going on strike over how their base pay is calculated after more than a year of negotiations between the teachers union and the school district failed to reach agreement.
It is the first teacher strike for the city in a quarter century and it affects about 71,000 students across 147 schools, Colorado Public Radio reports.
Teachers hold this country together in more ways than teaching kids. Some of the stories this morning, of kids going to school without staff have been pretty interesting. "Bedlam" and "unsafe" was used to describe some.