Archive for May 2013

This alternative high school in Connecticut has obviously been run by the teacher union for over a year.  Now teachers are beginning to wonder if it was a good idea as the teacher union president for the school is also the head administrator.  The union president was appointed by the school board in an attempt to improve the failing school, and…

Now that Mayor Emanuel must close down some Chicago schools because of last year’s teacher strike, which added a Herculean burden to the district’s $1 million deficit, the shoe is on the other foot for teacher union officials.  Now they are now complaining because some of their members will be laid off due to the…

To quote the slogan of West Virginia Professional Educators, “A Child’s Mind is too Precious to be Bargained For” Monopoly bargaining is compulsory unionism, pure and simple.  Even in a Right to Work state like Louisiana, teachers will be forced in to representation they neither need nor want because some teacher union officials are looking for power and…

Where has all the money gone?  In one Michigan school district, it’s going to perks for unionized teachers instead of to repairing and improving the dilapidated charter school.  Audrey Spalding has the story in Michigan Capitol Confidential. Though the Highland Park School District spent $19,634 per pupil in 2010-11, which was the highest in the state, district schools…

Stan  Greer of the National Institute for National Institute for Labor Relations Research, has good news for teachers in Right to Work states not mentioned in TeacherPortal.  Teachers in Right to Work states are free to join, or refrain from joining, a professional organization of their own choosing.  So many Right to Work states offer a professional alternative…

Why is this article important to teachers?  As the National Institute for Labor Relations Research has proved time after time, businesses pick Right to Work states when they are thinking of expanding and populations follow jobs.  Without population student populations decrease, and without students, teachers aren’t in demand. It is interesting to note that there are…

Once again, California Teacher Empowerment Network president Larry Sand exposes the hypocrisy and greed of the California Teachers Association.  It’s anybody’s guess where California teachers’ forced dues will go to if more Democrats board the education reform bus. One thing is sure:  the dues will NOT be going back to teachers – or students.  Read the whole…

A heartwarming story of courage as high schoolers wrest their band, and volunteer teacher, from the jaws of the teacher union doomsday machine.    Volunteers are the last thing unions want to see in any field.  Volunteers take away an opportunity for union officials, not only to milk the taxpayer, but to add a new forced-dues payor to…

The Michigan Education Association, long one of the largest and most powerful affiliates of the National Education Association.  Its power and ability to collect forced dues has been curtailed by Michigan’s Right to Work Law.  The MEA has worked tenaciously to keep its power over teachers by scrambling to keep every teacher paying dues whether…