Archive for May 2017
Bigger Impact of the Los Angeles School Board Race
Steven Greenhut reports on the impact of the recent Los Angeles school board race on reason.com. Supporters of charter schools, homeschooling and other forms of school choice are so used to…
Read MoreNEA’s Ramps Up Animosity Towards Charters
Whether it makes a difference to anything other than National Education Association (NEA) teacher union policy or not, it is interesting that this new resolution on charter schools comes just…
Read MoreLAUSD School Board Elections Upsets Union Officials
In a surprising upset, school choice groups made a big dent in the Los Angeles Unified School District Board elections. Media has concentrated on the unprecedented amount of money these…
Read MoreNation’s First Charter Strike Averted
Once again, teacher union officials at charter schools take the best page from the playbook of their fellows at public schools and threaten a strike to show their power to intimidate. It…
Read MorePennsylvania Teachers Seeking Legal Challenge to Forced Union Dues
From the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, of which CEAFU is a Special Project. PA teachers opposed to public sector forced unionism ask court to rule against them to…
Read MoreStudents Strike Back!
Teacher union officials are always talking about how everything they do is for the students. In order to show their teachers how they felt about a strike teacher union officials…
Read MoreNation’s First Charter School Strike Set for Tomorrow
The teacher union at Chicago’s Passages Charter School are set to strike tomorrow if their demands are not met. Check out the story in enews Park Forest. Union educators at Passages…
Read MoreA Peak Into Monopoly Bargaining Contracts
It is a well-known fact that teacher union power rests in their ability to force teachers and administrators to abide by the monopoly bargaining agreement. Mike Antonucci takes a look at some things…
Read MoreBrian Golas: Teachers unions don’t serve students
A union member speaks out in the Providence Journal Online. By Brian Golas I’m a teacher at Coventry High School and have been teaching for 23 years. As a member of…
Read MoreLarry Sand: Tax Freedom Day and Teacher Union Power
CEAFU Key Leader Larry Sand finds a correlation with teacher union power and a later Tax Freedom Day (TFD) in the California Policy Center. In 1900, Tax Freedom Day was January 22nd,…
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