On December 9, 2008, Bill Lipkin appeared on New Hour on PBS, in a report on higher education and the exploitation of adjuncts in New Jersey...

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Come celebrate Bay Area adult education! There will be door prizes, a silent auction, raffle, community speakers, and great entertainment, including music by the La Pena Chorus and Hali Hammer, Berkeley teacher and folksinger. Lunch, drinks and snacks will be available to purchase. Entry is a $5 donation.

There are about 200 part-time adult education teachers in Oakland. We help serve approximately 30,000 adult students. The District recently forced a health care caps on us.

More than half of the undergraduate courses at U.S. public colleges and universities are taught by “contingent” faculty and graduate instructors rather than full-time tenured faculty, resulting in an unstable and financially exploited workforce, according to a report released today by the American Federation of Teachers.

In poll after poll, parents, teachers and school staff say that school safety and order are their highest school priorities. Educators know that other efforts to improve schools will not be effective without an orderly and safe learning environment.

Colleges and Universities Increasingly Rely on

Underpaid Contingent Faculty to Teach Courses

Read the November, 2008 edition of the Federation Voice online!

The average salary for traditional public school teachers increased 4.5 percent in 2006-07 to $51,009, according to the AFT's latest teacher salary survey, marking the first time average teacher pay exceeded $50,000 and the first time since 2003 that teacher salaries surpassed the annual rate of inflation.