Archive for March 2017

A Connecticut Superior Court judge has upheld a Freedom of Information Commission ruling allowing date from teacher evaluations to be made public and diminish teacher union power to keep poor performing teachers on just because they pay dues. Barry Lytton has the story in the newstimes.com. An effort by Connecticut’s largest teachers’ union to keep data about…

Minnesota parents have not given up their battle to ensure their children get the best education possible.   They have aimed their efforts against teacher union power enshrined in monopoly bargaining contracts.  Christopher Magan has the story in Twincities.com. Attorneys for parents who are challenging Minnesota’s teachers union protections have asked the state Court of Appeals to overturn…

Teacher union officials in Downers Grove, Illinois, are planning to pack the school board with union-friendly candidates. If this happens, as on so many other school boards, the power of teacher union officials will be sitting across the table from each other during contract negotiations. Glenn Minnis has the story in the DuPage Policy Journal. Two…

Idaho teacher union officials are opposing a secret ballot bill which would allow teachers to decide whether or not to become a union member and be represented by the union before the school board. Idaho is a Right to Work state so teaches are not required to join a union in order to get or…

The fact that teachers are forced into unwanted representation in school districts where teacher union officials exercise exclusive representation is often overlooked when speaking of teacher freedom. A bill in the Indiana legislature would foster more transparency about representation for teachers and taxpayers.  Darcy Costello has the story in the Journal Gazette Indiana. Indiana lawmakers are considering…

The New York Board of Regents, which sets education policy in the Empire State, is eliminating a literacy exam for new teachers, claiming the test is “flawed.” The Board, which is composed of teacher union officials and their hand-picked representatives have paved the way for more dues-paying members to become teachers, regardless of their ability…

In another bid to sit on both sides of the monopoly bargaining table, teacher union officials in the Missouri Lindbergh school district are running 4 of 9 candidates in the race. Mike Anthony has the story in the Call newspapers. The April 4 election for the Lindbergh Board of Education is the most crucial race…

Jule Pattison Gordon, in the Bay State Banner, reveals some interesting facts about Boston’s monopoly bargaining practices in negotiations with teacher union officials.  The taxpayer takes on the cost of the bargaining and union political spending. The Walsh administration’s 2018 fiscal year school budget includes about $20 million set       aside for costs associated with…