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Alton School Board of Education Approves New Contract for Teachers

5 months ago
ALTON - The Alton Community Unit School District #11 Board of Education has approved a three-year collective bargaining agreement with the Alton Education Association. Board of Education President David Lauschke explained that teachers will be working under a new contract following the agreement between the Board of Education and the AEA. The new contract will go into effect on July 1, 2025, and expire on June 30, 2028. “We have certainty for the next three years in terms of salary schedules and verbiage in the contract,” Lauschke said. “That gives them a great deal of certainty, knowing what they’re going to be making and what the contract itself says.” In a statement, the Alton School District said the agreement was reached “through a streamlined, collaborative process.” After six negotiation sessions, a “tentative agreement” was reached on March 27. The AEA members voted for the contract on April 2, and the Board of Educatio

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Federal Consumer Protection Is Dead. The Fate Of Net Neutrality Warned You It Was Coming.

5 months ago
A fusion of authoritarianism and corporatism is destroying what’s left of U.S. federal consumer protection. Whether by dodgy Supreme Court ruling, executive order, or captured regulators, the U.S. right, often in lockstep with consolidated corporate power, are making massive, historic, and potentially irreversible inroads in destroying federal corporate oversight, labor protections, public safety provisions, environmental […]
Karl Bode

U.S. Supreme Court pauses order to return wrongly deported Maryland man

5 months ago
This story was updated at 4:34 p.m. Eastern. WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily granted the Trump administration’s request Monday to block a lower court’s order to bring back to the United States a Maryland man who was erroneously deported to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. The order from Chief Justice John Roberts that […]
Ariana Figueroa

U.S. Supreme Court pauses order to return wrongly deported Maryland man

5 months ago
This story was updated at 4:34 p.m. Eastern. WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily granted the Trump administration’s request Monday to block a lower court’s order to bring back to the United States a Maryland man who was erroneously deported to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. The order from Chief Justice John Roberts that […]
Ariana Figueroa