Education Department Downsizing a ‘Good Step’
“While the DoED downsizing is a good step, the principal battlegrounds for genuine school reform have been and will continue to be in the state capitals."
“While the DoED downsizing is a good step, the principal battlegrounds for genuine school reform have been and will continue to be in the state capitals."
Big Labor’s growing budgetary power fuels bureaucratic bloat in public schools, driving up costs without improving education for students or taxpayers.
Biden-Harris appointee Miguel Cardona, has stalled federal efforts to stop Big Labor and its cohorts from shielding child abusers.
Post-Janus, it’s clear that Big Labor’s extraordinary power over education has been due, above all, to its coercive legal privileges over educators. Reversing decades of educational decline will require further curtailment of those privileges.
Union Bigwigs Grab Control Over K-12 Employees in Fairfax County
Michigan's K-12 school enrollment has dropped by 4.9% since 2019, and many parents have moved their children to states with less powerful unions or enrolled them in charter schools, leading to a 3.3% increase in charter school enrollment.
Largely thanks to the Right to Work attorney-won U.S. Supreme Court decision in Janus v. AFSCME, union bosses like NEA President Becky Pringle are no longer able to block virtually all meaningful education policy reforms.
Gov. DeSantis is vowing to help public educators cut off all financial support for government unions they don’t support.
The Janus-facilitated decline in the NEA union bosses’ empire has accelerated over time. In the 2021-22 academic year alone, the NEA union’s working membership fell by just over 40,000,