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Articles by Nicole McCormick
West Virginia Teachers Organizing for the Common Good
In 2018, teachers in West Virginia launched a statewide wildcat strike to protest low wages, rising healthcare costs, and a proposed measure to eliminate teacher seniority. The militancy and vision of their strike caught the nation’s attention. Despite the odds, they won — and beat back an effort by the state the next year to further undermine their working conditions and the quality of their schools.
The dates and staggered starts for all GTA schools
by Nicole McCormick Posted Aug 25, 2020 11:15 am EDT Last Updated Aug 25, 2020 at 11:17 am EDT Des Moines Public Schools custodian Cynthia Adams cleans a desk in a classroom at Brubaker Elementary School, Wednesday, July 8, 2020, in Des Moines, Iowa.
In West Virginia’s Education Wars, “We Can’t Play Nice”
Nicole McCormick These people don’t know anything about public schools, or even charters for that matter. They’re throwing out numbers from ALEC that aren’t based in reality. They say that public schools in West Virginia are failing, but that’s a lie. We’re doing wonderful, amazing things in our public schools that we should be proud of. Our schools aren’t failing and, in any case, charters are not any solution for the problems that we do have.
In West Virginia’s Education Wars, “We Can’t Play Nice”
Interview by Eric Blanc A new battle in West Virginia’s education wars began last Saturday. Hoping to reverse the mass movement that won statewide strikes in February-March 2018 and February 2019, Republican legislators have called a special legislative session to impose school privatization and to further criminalize striking. West Virginia school employees have again turned to mobilizing at the capitol and momentum towards further escalating actions is growing.
lowdowntohullandback
In a community of just over 500 people, keeping secrets is no easy feat. But for five years, convicted pedophile Jean Durand of Denholm, who is married to Danielle Cillis – a sitting councillor – somehow managed to keep his 2012 arrest under wraps, all the while running for council and helping to organize community events attended by children. And although his actions present a definite ethical dilemma, it’s the legality of his involvement in these events that is now being called into question.
lowdowntohullandback
Just over 24 hours after his first victim reported him to police, disgraced Chelsea doctor Vincent Nadon pulled into the parking lot of the IGA Famille Charles in Farm Point with one goal in mind: after exiting his black Volvo around 11 p.m. on Jan. 17, he made straight for the dumpster and proceeded to dump evidence under a blanket of darkness on a cold winter’s night.
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