Teacher Rights

California Teacher Empowerment Network Executive Director Larry Sand, as usual, has produced a thoughtful and hard-hitting response to an article, “6 Reasons Teachers Unions Are Good for Kids.6 Reasons Teachers…

Now here is an idea that is really about the kids – and the teachers. At least three Douglas County, Colorado, school board members want own job back, presenting 4 proposals…

Democrats like Michelle Rhee, of StudentsFirst.org, and Joe Williams, who heads up Democrats for Education Reform, take education reform to the highest level by making it a nonpartisan issue.  Part…

A Right to Work doesn’t prevent taxpayers and teachers from the danger, and cost, of monopoly bargaining.    An opinion blog in the Las Vegas Review Journal tells the story:  If the…

AFT (AFL-CIO) teacher union officials have been picketing in Chicago district, allowing their industrial union roots to show.  With 400,000 Chicago school children being subjected to gaze at a giant…

The NEA falsely claims that “Right-to-Work Laws Increase Poverty, Decrease Productivity” but reality proves these Big Labor propagandists wrong: Right to Work States Benefit From Faster Growth, Higher Real Purchasing Power…

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,…