Late yesterday, the Oklahoma State House passed a bill that would provide funding for classroom resources. The bill would tax sales from Amazon and is estimated to provide $20 million a year in funding. However, the bill does not provide additional funding for school resources as requested by many striking

After filing 13 stories on the West Virginia Teacher’s Strike and finally 14 stories on the #PA18 special election, I really needed a vacation (especially considering that I canceled mine in August to file 15 stories on the Nissan union election). Now, we need your help to go cover

Earlier today, Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk appeared on Democracy Now. “In some of these school districts, the Democratic superintendents of the schools are actually quite supportive, because of how bad the funding cuts are,” Elk told Amy Goodman on Democracy Now this morning. “My colleague and I, Karina

From Oklahoma City, Payday Senior Labor Reporter Mike Elk filed a dispatch for the Guardian on the Teacher’s Strike: Leaning over the overpass going under the Oklahoma State Capitol Complex, a group of a dozen women in rain jackets hold signs as oil tankers pass under, honking their horns