Teacher strikes have swept across the United States. In the last 13 months, K-12 educators in places as diverse as West Virginia, Oklahoma, Colorado, and California have protested for better pay and better resources. But this isn’t just about money. It’s a fight for the future of public education, and charter schools are at the center of it. Lou explains.

SOURCES & FURTHER READING

Economic Policy Institute’s paper on “The Teacher Pay Penalty”
http://irle.berkeley.edu/files/2018/0...

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities on “A Punishing Decade for School Funding”
https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-b...

National Education Association on “Teacher Compensation: Fact vs. Fiction”
http://www.nea.org/home/12661.htm

Pew Research on “U.S. students’ academic achievement still lags that of their peers in many other countries.”
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank...

CNN on “Here's what teachers accomplished with their protests this year”
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/29/us/wha...

CREDITS
Writer: Louis Foglia
Editor: m.cho
Researcher: Page Ellerson
Supervising Producer: Allison Brown

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