Ridge demanded that the city stop pursuing a federal anti-discrimination lawsuit over funding. The teachers' union threatened to strike when its contract expired at the end of August … Under Act 46, strikes were forbidden.”

The SRC was a direct attack on the teachers union, the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers. It was a means by which a Republican governor could hold a gun to city politicians in the form of an $80 million infusion to open the schools; an extortionist demand to change work rules, take away the right to strike, and open the doors to the privatization of the school district in the form of charter schools.

So, it is no surprise that both the local and national presidents of the PFT were in the house when the SRCHOUSTON – Police are investigating after a woman fatally shot her father Tuesday morning in southwest Houston, officials said.

According to the Houston Police Department, the incident happened around 11:38 a.m. at the Peninsula Parks apartment complex near West Fuqua Street.

Police said the woman, in her 20s, fatally shot her father in the torso with a handgun after a dispute.

Family members identified the victim as 50-year-old Roderick Winston. Family members told KPRC there were two young children, who were Winston's grandchildren, inside the apartment at the time of the shooting. The children, a baby and a child under 10 years old, were not injured in the shooting.

Officials said the woman, who was upset, was taken to a hospital and was cooperating with police officers.

Homicide detectives are still investigating the