Teacher Rights

In an effort to improve underperforming schools, the Philadelphia school district has cancelled the monopoly bargaining contract with teachers in that district.  Predictably, teacher union officials are grousing about the…

Half of Wisconsin teachers eligible for Wisconsin Education Action Council (WEAC) membership prefer freedom over union membership. All Wisconsin teachers have the right to represent themselves, or choose representation through another organization. Those teachers…

RiShawn Biddle breaks down the National Education Association’s (NEA) political spending (all $132 million of it) in Dropout Nation.  IN all but 24 states, the NEA (or any other teacher union)…

The last bastion of monopoly bargaining is quickly disappearing in Wisconsin.  After December 13, Dane County public sector unions will be forced to earn dues money, instead of forcing workers…

There was another incident involving a teacher union official stealing thousands of dues dollars in another forced-dues state, New York.  The Empire State has mandatory, compulsory monopoly bargaining and forced dues. …

The Barnegat Education Association teacher union treasurer was arrested for theft after it was discovered that more than $20,000 in dues dollars were missing from the union’s accounts.  It is…

Ben de Grow discusses performance-based pay systems and why they will attract the best teaching candidates, in the Greeley Tribune. The current system, in widespread use nationally, is broken and inefficient. It’s…

A New York charter school, run by United Federation of Teachers union officials, illustrates how even charter schools cannot flourish under a monopoly bargaining contact.  Originally developed as an innovative reform,…

Teacher union officials spent millions of dollars in an attempt to elect handpicked candidates willing to do their bidding, but most were soundly defeated in favor of candidates who will…

Larry Sand, President of the California Teacher Empowerment Network, and relentless teacher union critic, tells the story of the great Philadelphia experiment, where the teacher union monopoly bargaining contract is…