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Common Dreams reports
Colorado's teachers' union expects more than 400 teachers at a rally that's planned for Monday at the state's Capitol in Denver.
[...] Englewood School District, outside the capital city, announced on Sunday that schools would be closed the following day as 70 percent of its teachers had indicated they wouldn't be working Monday. It was unclear on Sunday whether more school districts would be closing.
"We are calling Monday, April 16th a day of action", Kerrie Dallman, president of the Colorado Education Association (CEA), told KDVR in Denver.
[...] According to[1] KMGH in Denver, "The CEA estimates that teachers spend on average $656 of their own money for school supplies for students." The state's teacher salaries rank 46th out of 50, with educators making an average of $46,000 per year.
Public schools are underfunded by $828 million this year, Dallman told the Post, and lawmakers have said they could inject at least $100 million more into schools--but they have yet to do so.
[...] The planned protest follows a trend that was seen in West Virginia and Kentucky before moving west this month to Oklahoma and Arizona as well as Colorado. In all the states where teachers have walked out and rallied at their Capitols, teachers have reported paying for school supplies out of pocket, working second and third jobs to make ends meet, and coping with funding shortages while their legislators hand out tax cuts to corporations.
[1] For a laugh (or perhaps a deep sigh), check out all the whitespace in the source code of the page.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday April 17 2018, @01:47PM
They have been pushing that propaganda since at least the late 70s via my personal observation. I'm told they have been pushing that since the ruins stopped smoking after the 60s race riots.
Some of it is a side dish of the death of legacy media. Ya gotta fill pages of newspapers even if there's no news, so they've been running the same filler stories for at least 40 years about how people are moving back into the cities.
With another side dish of clickbait. Nostalgia, I suppose. I remember reading that around the time of the skylab re-entry or maybe TMI. I remember two technological disasters when I was a little kid, three mile island, if its melting down, why not shut it off, and skylab re entering uncontrollably, if its up there, why's it falling down? Anyway another story in the news at the time was "people are moving back into the city" so theres some nostalgia.
And a third side dish of literal simple propaganda. Just like news stories about 99% odds of Hillary Clinton winning were propaganda wish fulfillment not real reporting, there are stories trying to create events like "everybody is moving back to cities better hurry up and not get left behind" yeah I been hearing that one since 1979 and I've somehow avoided being the last to move back into some bombed out ghetto, sure I can continue to avoid moving back for a couple more decades LOL.