Students Learn Less in States with Stronger Teachers’ Unions
Year after year, students in Big Labor controlled school systems get farther behind new study documents. Expanding on Terry Moe’s research in his book Special Interest.
Year after year, students in Big Labor controlled school systems get farther behind new study documents. Expanding on Terry Moe’s research in his book Special Interest.
The American Thinker examines how big teachers union have become impediments for needed education reform: American public education may be in crisis, but teachers are fairly happy with their lives, according to a new Gallup poll: The…
Right to Work laws prohibiting the termination of employees for refusal to pay dues or fees to an unwanted union are sound policy. No worker should be fired for supporting a union, and no worker should be fired for refusing…
Writing for the Orange County Register, Larry Sand, a retired teacher who taught in Los Angeles and NYC public schools for 28…
Simon Campbell’s column defending worker’s choice in union membership is a proposition that is hard to argue against it but union bosses do it everyday of the week: Who should decide whether a union benefits an employee? The…
Over the years, teacher union bosses have concocted a wide array of unseemly ways to make money off of teachers, but officers of the Clark County Education Association (CCEA/NSEA/NEA) union in Nevada warrant special attention for their creative greed. As…
For years, Maryland state law has empowered government union bosses to seek and obtain the power to force teachers and other K-12 public school employees to fork over union dues or fees, or be fired. But top officials of the…
Just when you think they can't go any lower, the union bosses have filed a lawsuit in Louisiana to force children to attend poor schools. The Wall Street Journal opines on the latest big labor outrage: Here's the bizarre world in which we live: In 2007 Gabriel Evans attended a public school in New Orleans graded "F" by the Louisiana Department of Education. Thanks to a New Orleans voucher program, Gabriel moved in 2008 to a Catholic school. His mother, Valerie Evans, calls the voucher a "lifesaver," allowing him to get "out of a public school system that is filled with fear, confusion and violence." So what is the response of the teachers union? Sue the state to force 11-year-old Gabriel back to the failing school. This week a state court in Baton Rouge is hearing the union challenge to Louisiana's Act 2, which expanded the New Orleans program statewide and allows families with a household income less than 250% of the federal poverty line to get a voucher to escape schools ranked C or worse by the state. Gabriel's voucher covers $4,315 in annual tuition. The tragedy is how many students qualify for the program. According to the state, 953 of the state's 1,373 public schools (K-12) were ranked C, D or F. Under the new program, more than 4,900 students have received scholarships allowing them to attend non-public schools. Enter the teachers unions, which sued this summer to stop the incursion into their rotting enterprise. According to the Louisiana Federation of Teachers and the Louisiana Association of Educators, the voucher program steals money from public schools.
A document the National Education Association filed with the U.S. Department of Labor in 2011 indicates that the teachers union donated $100,000 to Media Matters For America nearly two years ago, describing it as a payment for “public relations costs.”…