Teacher Rights
Larry Sand on School Choice Week
CEAFU Key Leader Larry Sand comments on school vouchers for School Choice Week. Larry Sand is President of the California Teachers Empowerment Network, serving California teachers who want an alternative to union…
Read MoreBaltimore Teachers Union Taking Over School Mailboxes
The Baltimore Teachers Union has demanded exclusive access to school mailboxes, ensuring all communications have union officials’ sanction. And teachers are not happy about it. Teachers wanting free legal advice…
Read MoreWho’s Afraid of Big Bad Milwaukee Charter Schools?
Milwaukee Teachers Association boss Bob Peterson bemoaned a reform plan which establishing some charter schools. Christian D’Andrea of the McIver Public Policy Institute counters Peterson’s claims. Charter schools may be exempt from some…
Read MoreNew York Union Elections Heating U04
New York State United Teachers bosses are waging war upon each other, unable to settle on a candidate to support in the upcoming officer elections. Liz Benjamin has th story…
Read MoreWho’s Teaching Your Children?
An arbitrator decides who should teach the children in Wisconsin. M. D. Kittle has the story in Wisconsin Reporter. That’s how much taxpayers in the Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District…
Read MoreWisconsin Faculty Union May Merge With K-12 Union
Teacher union officials continue to talk about a merger between the National Education Association (NEA) and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) unions because of the decline in membership after Act…
Read MoreNew Development in Foundation’s Harris Case
Although National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorney Bill Messenger, argued the Harris v. Quinn last week, there are some new developments. The state never verified the ballots for the first election…
Read MoreProminent Editor Opposes Public Sector Bargaining
Charles Lane opposes public sector bargaining as well as forced dues. Charles Lane is a Post editorial writer, specializing in economic policy, financial issues and trade, and a contributor to the…
Read MoreFree All The Teachers From Automatic Dues
Apparently American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten and United Federation of Teachers president Michael Mulgrew (he of the operation to sweep UFT’s office of electronic bugs) believe a good union…
Read MoreCommon Core Supporters Shun Publicity
Supporters of the Common Core curriculum suddenly don’t want their names mentioned in President Obama’s State of the Union Address. Sean Higgins of the Washington Examiner, has the story. Common Core is…
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