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Teacher Resigns After Student Finds Out About Her Porn Star Past
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsIt's the history lesson one Missouri teacher hoped she would never have to cover. St. Louis science teacher Tera Myers stepped down Friday after a student confronted her about her past working as an actress in X-rated films. The 38-year-old Parkway North High School educator -- who starred in pornographic videos in the 1990s under the name Rikki Andersin -- has been placed on administrative leave, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She will be paid through the rest of the school year but will not teach classes or return to her post next year. Myers decided to resign "out of ...
Ohio SB 5: The Anti-Collective Bargaining Bill Explained
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsToday the Ohio Senate will consider Senate Bill 5, which was just approved by the state's Insurance, Commerce and Labor Committee in a 7-5 vote. SB 5, as it's known, is sponsored by Sen. Shannon Jones, a first-term Republican from Ohio's 7th District. The bill takes aim at state collective bargaining laws, and opponents have dubbed it an anti-labor or anti-union bill. Jones told the Youngstown Business Journal: "We cannot restore our economy and create jobs if we keep raising the tax burden on Ohioans, and the only way to get that under control is to limit the growth of government. Senate ...
Collective Bargaining: Do SAT Scores Prove States Need It?
By David Knowles - AOL NewsDoes collective bargaining make for better or worse test scores? With Republican-controlled legislatures and state houses from Wisconsin to Oklahoma attempting to strip state workers of collective bargaining rights, figures on the combined SAT and ACT college entrance test scores in states without them are proving fodder for the ongoing debate. As republished in The Economist, a chart purporting to show that combined SAT and ACT scores in the five U.S. states without collective bargaining rights are among the worst in the country quickly became a viral hit on Twitter and Facebook. Indeed, ...
NYC Teachers Sue City for Slander Over Lesbian Sex Allegations
By Dana Chivvis - AOL NewsTwo New York City high school teachers accused of having a sexual romp in a classroom are suing the city for $2 million for ruining their reputations. Alini Brito and Cindy Mauro were fired last month after a state arbitrator's report concluded that the pair of language teachers were having a "sexual encounter" when school custodians walked in on them in November 2009. But the duo filed a lawsuit Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court claiming wrongful termination, libel and slander, the New York Daily News reports. "They've had to deal with these false allegations of engaging in lesbian sex," ...
New Jersey Budget: 5 Key Cuts Proposed by Gov. Christie
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsNew Jersey is but the latest state in the nation to face the music. Today Gov. Chris Christie unveiled his budget for the year ending June 30, 2012. Touting the state's efforts to close a projected $11 billion deficit, Christie declared a "new normal" in New Jersey: We will no longer blindly fund commitments that prior legislators and governors have made ... regardless of whether they were wise, and regardless of whether they yielded programs that even work. This year's budget ... is not a budget that funds each and every program at the same level as last year. Instead, we've done ...
Marching in Madison: Are Union Workers Welfare Queens, or Friends and Neighbors?
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyOn cable television for a time this week, it looked like Cairo had come to Madison, as up to 70,000 people demonstrating for their rights marched on the Statehouse in Wisconsin. Fourteen Democratic lawmakers fled the Capitol, crossing state lines to avoid giving a Republican majority in the state Senate the quorum needed to pass legislation that would curb the collective bargaining rights of public employees and mandate they pay more for their health care and pension benefits. The clash over workers' rights and benefits sparked the kind of demonstrations that the liberal capital had not seen ...
Opinion: Are Teachers an Endangered Species?
By Walt Gardner - AOL NewsIn New York City, home of the nation's largest school district, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 would eliminate more than 6,000 teaching positions, the first significant layoffs of teachers in the city since the 1970s. Budget cuts in Los Angeles could result in the loss of 5,000 teachers. And in Wisconsin, tens of thousands of teachers are protesting plans to cut pay. Justin Sullivan, Getty Images A boy holds a sign in support of teachers during a Pink Friday protest on March 13, 2009, at the Berkeley Unified School District building in ...
Wisconsin Democrats Found, and Their Best Western Has an Indoor Water Park
By David Knowles - AOL NewsLost and found. Fourteen Wisconsin Democratic lawmakers went on the lam today, staging a protest against Republican Gov. Scott Walker's bill that would eliminate collective bargaining rights for most state workers. Late in the day, however, they were discovered to be holed up a Best Western hotel in Rockford, Ill. As they are out of state, they cannot be forced to return to participate in an open session. That means that Walker's efforts to hold a vote on the measure that would dramatically increase the amount that state workers must pay into pension and health plans cannot proceed. Surge ...
Vote: Natalie Munroe Blog a Firing Offense? [POLL]
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsPennsylvania teacher Natalie Munroe is standing by her blog. In an ABC News interview, Munroe defended herself for writing harsh comments about her Bucks County high school students and posting them on the Internet, saying she hopes her criticism of student performance will "start a conversation that needs to be had." Munroe has been suspended with pay, and if her district takes further action, her attorney says he plans to contest it on First Amendment grounds. Watch: Does Munroe deserve to be fired, or should she stay in the classroom? Vote in the Surge Desk poll. More stories ...
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