Archive for July 2012

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 9,000 teachers to the nation’s capital, featured “Barack Obama T-shirts, videos celebrating the health care law, and a wall-size banner with encouraging messages to the…

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 number of other states. But this specific sampling came forward during the recent meeting in Coeur d’Alene of state school superintendents to unite in their…

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 group, the Concerned Residents of Pennsbury did some very uncivil tings, including a scheme to divide the district politically in such a way that “.…

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 believe in.  CEAFU supporter Judy Bruns, a retired Ohio teacher who formerly served as an NEA Assembly Representative, was a victim who worked tirelessly within…

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 teaching students, when she declares:    “Exclusivity for a union with majority support is not a monopoly, it is democracy. . .”   Those teachers who…

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 the public school system. Be aware that these are individual souls, not full-time equivalents. Forty-four state affiliates lost active members in 2010-11. The following states…

Knowledge of right to choose infuriates Nevada NEA Union Bosses. Union bosses throw tantrums when they learned that their union members were being informed that they have the right to drop their union memberships.  Nevada is a Right To Work State and it allows employees the right to choose to belong or not belong a union.  If teachers do not…

Ian Tuttle relates the mood at the NEA Convention was not conducive to delegates out of lockstep with the NEA “Party Line”, in the National Review: The event, which brought 9,000 teachers to the nation’s capital, featured “Barack Obama T-shirts, videos celebrating the health care law, and a wall-size banner with encouraging messages to the incumbent…

Mike Antonucci gives us the chuckle of the Day in his Intercepts blog: After the speech by Vice President Joe Biden, most of today was spent debating new business items (NBIs). Notable among these: They approved NBI 22, which directs the union to develop a strategy to reverse the Citizens United decision through an amendment to the Constitution –…