Upcoming Events
CEAFU2023 Online Conference
Teachers and educators, activists and concerned citizens, join us online on May 12th, 2023 12-3:30 PM EST for an afternoon filled with incredible inspiration and information!
CEAFU Lunch: Cato’s Public Schooling Battle Map with Neal McCluskey
YouTube Live Event https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks6mC-DKHdMNeal McCluskey, our presenter this month, is the director of Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom.
Neal also manages the Public Schooling Battle Map, "an interactive database of values and identity‐based conflicts in public schools."
At this time, anyone concerned about the trends in public education will find he database helpful. If you have been ignoring public education, this will open your eyes. If you are involved in public education, this map will give you a tour of the USA and reveals trends in other communities, or maybe your own, that you have not seen before.
Concerned Educators Against Forced Unionism Lunch Break: AFFT Free Help to Non-Union Teacher Groups
YouTube Live Event https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks6mC-DKHdMOur guest today is the Senior Organizing Director of Americans for Fair Treatment (AFFT) Brigette Herbst. She will explain AFFT's membership program and how they partner with non-union teacher associations.
In addition, Brigette will likely discuss AFFT's scholarship and legislative training programs. Guest BIO Brigette Herbst is the Senior Organizing Director of Americans for Fair Treatment, a community of current and former public-sector employees offering resources and support to exercise their First Amendment rights.
CEAFU Lunch Break: Are Union Presidents Like Randi Weingarten Alienating Teachers?
CEAFU Lunch Break with guest Kali Fontanilla Kali serves as a Capital Research Center Senior fellow, particularly focusing on topics related to K-12 public education. In a recent blog article, "President of Teachers Union Tries to Rewrite History . . . and Fails", Kali Fontanilla highlighted an X (formerly Twitter) post by Randi Weingarten. The…
LIVE: The state of education and teacher unions’ culpability
Vimeo Live Event ONLINE, LA, United StatesCEAFU Lunch Break (2/9/2024): Expert Larry Sand's insights on the state of education and teacher unions' culpability
Larry Sand is the president of a non-profit organization that aims to inform teachers and the public about educational issues from a non-partisan and non-political perspective.
He has experience as a classroom teacher and has witnessed the effects of the NEA and AFT on the quality of education.
CEAFU Lunch Break (2/23): CUNY Educators’ Religious Rights
Vimeo Live Event ONLINE, LA, United States +1 moreWhen the union does not protect you, but it harasses you... CUNY professors fight back.
CEAFU Lunch Break (3/1): Taxpayers pay for NEA and AFT Armies
Vimeo Live Event ONLINE, LA, United States +1 moreAre taxpayers paying for the NEA and AFT to lobby the federal, state, and local governments?
All indications are yes. Legal Expert Milton Chappell will take your questions and explain various schemes across the U.S.
Update for Non-Union Teachers in Louisiana
Vimeo Live Event ONLINE, LA, United StatesCEAFU Lunch Break with Dr. Keith Courville, Ed.S., Ph.D, Executive Director of the Louisiana Teacher Organization A+PEL
This should be a fun event with our lively guest Keith Courville. He has certainly been active building an impressive voice and career empowerment powerhouse for Louisiana teacher that provides an alternative to the state AFT and NEA union organizations' agendas.
CEAFU2024 Online Conference
Vimeo Live Event ONLINE, LA, United StatesJoin us for an afternoon about victories in the battle to eradicate compulsory unionism for teachers. We have a terrific line up of experts for this year's CEAFU conference. There will be legal experts explaining your rights to refrain from the union and even your rights to expel a union from your school. Education legislation and policy experts giving you the ins and outs of current laws, proposed legislation, and relevant current policy issues. Concerned Educators Against Forced Unionism is a Special Project of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. CEAFU was established in 1975 to “take deadly aim against compulsory unionism in education.”
CEAFU Lunch Break: CATO Institute’s Public Schooling Battle Map
CEAFU.org Lunch Break Guest: Neal McCluskey is the director of Cato’s Center for Educational Freedom explains and demonstrates the Public Schooling Battle Map.
CATO:: This map aggregates a relatively small, but especially painful, subset of battles: those involving basic rights, moral values, or individual identities. Think restrooms and transgender students, books dealing with sex, or race and American history. The conflicts are often intensely personal, and guarantee if one fundamental value wins, another loses.