NEA-AFT
Are NEA and AFT Unions Leading to the Demise of Education?
According to well-known author Cal Thomas, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers unions are to blame for the deterioration of the quality of education in the United States.
Read MoreCorruption Within AFT: Local 3975 President Charles Farris Sentenced for Theft
After pleading guilty to three counts of theft, AFT Local 3975 President Charles Farris has been sentenced to four years of probation.
Read MoreLive CEAFU Lunch Break with AFFT’s Free Benefits for Non-Union Teacher Organizations
Concerned Educators Against Forced Unionism Lunch Break: AFFT Free Help to Non-Union Teacher Groups
Our guest today is the Senior Organizing Director of Americans for Fair Treatment (AFFT) Brigette Herbst.
Read MoreNational Right to Work Foundation Files Brief Defending Law to Protect Teachers’ First Amendment Rights
The Foundation has just submitted a brief at the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Anderson Federation of Teachers, et al. v. Rokita…
Read MoreBowman: Most Teachers Are Not Activist
Guest editorial by JC Bowman, Executive Director of the Professional Educators of Tennessee: Historically, unions have done some remarkable work in the private sector. However, union officials in the early…
Read MoreCato Expert Explains the Public Schooling Battle Map
This map summarizes a relatively small but particularly painful subset of battles: those involving basic rights, moral values, or individual identity. … The conflicts are often intensely personal, and guarantee that if one core value wins, another will lose.
Read MoreToday: CEAFU Lunch Break re: CATO’s Public Schooling Battle Map
The recording of the Live Broadcast is viewable below and at the following YouTube Link Today: We hope you will attend today’s (Pacific Coast) CEAFU Lunch Break with Neal McCluskey…
Read MoreGoldstein v. PSC-CUNY: A Case to Protect Public Employees’ Freedom of Association
The case is currently pending at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. About the Case For decades, government sector union bosses have relied on two pillars…
Read MoreTeacher Union Bosses and “The Debacle of Houston’s Failing Schools”
Well, Houston’s schools have failed five times in a row to cross that low bar. Some 200,000 Houston kids are being victimized by this educational ineptitude. So last week state officials announced they would take over the failed school district. Thank God.
Predictably, the unions are throwing a hissy fit.
Read MoreOhio Teachers Union’s “Miserable” Strike
Supposedly, these are part of the issues that lead the teachers’ union in Ohio to strike as schools started back up from the summer:
In Columbus, teachers say they want guarantees of smaller class sizes, full-time art, music and physical education teachers in elementary schools and a cap on the number of class periods throughout the school day.
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