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Detroit Public Schools claim that in 2005–2006 the graduation rate was 68 percent and expected it to hold constant in 2006–2007. On February 14, 2009, the Detroit Free Press reported that United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan had concern over the quality of education Detroit children were receiving. A spokesman later stated that ...
Janus v. AFSCME (2018) Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, 431 U.S. 209 (1977), was a US labor law case where the United States Supreme Court upheld the maintaining of a union shop in a public workplace. Public school teachers in Detroit had sought to overturn the requirement that they pay fees equivalent to union dues on the grounds that they ...
An American Federation of Teachers Bibliography. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1980. ISBN 0-8143-1659-X online; Berube, Maurice R. Teacher Politics: The Influence of Unions Vol. 26. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1988. ISBN 0-313-25685-3; Braun, Robert J. Teachers and Power: The Story of the American Federation of Teachers.
A lawsuit over busing students between Detroit and the suburbs to integrate schools was argued at the US Supreme Court 50 years ago. ... president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers. Some seats ...
The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs was established at Wayne State University in 1960 to collect and preserve original documents related to the American labor movement. [2] The library is named for early United Auto Workers organizer and president Walter Reuther. For over thirty years, the library's collections grew under ...
COVID-19 cases are increasing at an exponential rate — causing health concerns and staffing problems. Seven Action News has learned the Detroit Public Schools Community District sent an e-mail ...
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Occupation (s) Labor Leader, AFT & UFT President. Spouse. Edith Shanker. Children. 4. Albert Shanker (September 14, 1928 – February 22, 1997) was president of the United Federation of Teachers from 1964 to 1985 and president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) from 1974 to 1997.