Archive for August 2012

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 mean more money, more members, and more forced dues from the Administration.  Lindsey is quick to point out that small, rural districts (read – those…

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 StudentsFirst organization for doing so.  Now Ms. Stapleton is suffering the slings and arrows from Big Labor for standing up for what’s right for students and teachers. …

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 Unions have hijack safety away from administrators and forced schools to keep sexual predators within the school system’s walls within reach of children.  Campbell Brown…

“. . . quit talking about letting kids escape. . . . “ —Keith Geiger, 52, president of the National Education Association union; on the Larry King Show, Nov. 10, 1992. Excerpts from Forbes magazine’s June 7, 1993, nine-page article, The National Extortion Association? by Peter Brimelow and Leslie Spencer: [Empahsis added]