Last week witnessed an historic first - the first teachers strike at a charter school.
Actually, 15 charter schools.
A few days later the charter school company folded.

The nation’s first strike of teachers from a charter school network was suspended in Chicago when their union announced it had won salary hikes, sanctuary for undocumented students and other concessions. Educators returned to their classrooms Monday.

Most of the teacher strikes have been in Republican states. The next one could be in the most Republican state of them all.

South Carolina teachers are so frustrated by low pay and disrespect, an organized strike could be imminent, even without a union, teachers are warning legislators...
In South Carolina, teachers rallied on Statehouse grounds on a Saturday in May — after the legislative session ended. A 5 percent boost in the Palmetto State would bring teachers to the Southeastern average — something state law has called for since 1984.

Calls for education reform have intensified in the wake of The Post and Courier’s “Minimally Adequate” series, which lays out how gaping disparities, widespread segregation and a history of low expectations have helped make South Carolina’s public school system one of the nation’s worst and left thousands of students unprepared for college or work after high school.
While there are teacher advocacy groups in South Carolina, there is no union. State law forbids collective bargaining rights for public employees.

But they began mobilizing through social media earlier this year. SC for Ed, which organized Wednesday’s meeting with a trio of House members, has grown to more than 19,000 members. Statewide, there are more than 50,000 teachers.

In Kentucky, teachers manage to stave off the worst of a right-wing assault. Yesterday the courts did an assist.

The Kentucky Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a state pension law that prompted thousands of public school teachers to strike earlier this year.

The pension law, which was signed by Gov. Matt Bevin (R) in April, created a 401(k)/pension hybrid, which would have decreased cost-of-living pay for teachers and required new hires to work longer before becoming eligible for retirement benefits.