Teacher Rights

If there was any question of Barack Obama being beholden to teacher unions for his presidency, Lindsey Burke’s blog in The Foundry, reveals the payback to teacher unions.  The unions’ current endorsements…

UAW and Michigan Education Association officials withdrew their support (and lots of forced-dues dollars) from Democrat Representative Maureen Stapleton because she supported teacher tenure reforms, AND received kudos from the…

The sad story that continues to be told in our public school system is that through compulsory unionism and collectively bargained power National Education Assoc. Unions and the American Fed. of Teachers…

“. . . quit talking about letting kids escape. . . . “ —Keith Geiger, 52, president of the National Education Association union; on the Larry King Show, Nov. 10,…

Ian Tuttle of the Corner, National Review Online, reports on conservative NEA members’ puerile treatment by Democrat members.  Not a very democratic way to run a “Representative” Assembly. The event, which brought…

The Coeur d’Alene Press editorial asks the question:   What do Oklahoma, South Dakota, North Carolina and Georgia all have in common?  They’re all following Idaho’s lead in education reform, as are a…

Simon Campbell, a popular teacher union critic, school board member and Executive Director of StopTeacherStrikes.org, was targeted by the teacher unions in his own district recently. Calling themselves a civic-minded…

In this revealing story about teacher union political spending, reporter Alicia Mundy reveals the millions that teacher union officials have forced reluctant teachers to give to causes they do not…

Perhaps the most egregious aspect of this story is the quote from Brenda Smith, head of the local AFT.  It is shocking to think this labor union official might be…

Mike Antonucci Looks at Membership Numbers After Officials “. . .Tried Every Tactic Imaginable” NEA had a total of 3,166,761 members of all types, of whom 2,807,332 were active and employed in…