The new Makridis study, titled “Staffing Surges and Student Outcomes,” investigates the “political and institutional drivers” of the substantial growth in K-12 spending and staffing over the past two decades
Under current law, union dues are often extracted from Idaho teachers’ paychecks without their active consent.
In response to a staffing crisis, the elected Lee County School Board (LCSB) approved an incentive plan to attract and retain teachers for high-need schools and hard-to-fill subject areas.
The recent experiences of Florida and Arkansas show that, when government stops impeding American educators’ exit from teacher unions, many will leave them.
According to teacher union boss Randi Weingarten, the only reason to oppose monopolistic unions is because you’re a “fascist.” If you buy that, abolitionist, civil rights leader and journalist Frederick Douglass was a “fascist”!!
Business Item 60, vowing that the NEA would use the word “facism” whenever communicating about policies favored by the President and his many supporters, was just one of several highly controversial 2025 NEA resolutions.
Though the NJEA hierarchy couldn’t donate to the Spiller campaign directly, it effortlessly worked around the law...
“Idaho prospects are better this year than in 2021, thanks to significant turnover in the Republican primaries last year in both chambers of the Idaho Legislature,” said Mr. Kalb.
Even when government schools perform so abysmally that the vast majority of local parents disenroll their children, Chicago Teachers Union-owned Mayor Brandon Johnson insists more unionized staff and taxpayer funding are the answer!