Archive for May 2017

Steven Greenhut reports on the impact of the recent Los Angeles school board race on reason.com. Supporters of charter schools, homeschooling and other forms of school choice are so used to fighting in the trenches against the state’s muscular teachers unions that they often forget how much progress they’ve made in the last decade or so. Recent…

In a surprising upset, school choice groups made a big dent in the Los Angeles Unified School District Board elections. Media has concentrated on the unprecedented amount of money these and parent groups have spent on the election, the spending must have made a difference if it has unseated the entrenched union-selected officials who previously…

Once again, teacher union officials at charter schools take the best page from the playbook of their fellows at public schools and threaten a strike to show their power to intimidate.  It is interesting to note the rank and file has not voted on the contract yet.  Do union officials really speak for their members?  Matt Masterson has the story on…

From the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, of which CEAFU is a Special Project. PA teachers opposed to public sector forced unionism ask court to rule against them to move case toward U.S. Supreme Court Pittsburgh, PA (May 19, 2017) – Four Pennsylvania teachers have filed a brief in federal court seeking judgment in their…

Teacher union officials are always talking about how everything they do is for the students. In order to show their teachers how they felt about a strike teacher union officials called in November of last year, causing havoc, in particular, to high school seniors.  Eileen Godin has the story in The Times Leader of Dallas, Pennsylvania. Dallas…

It is a well-known fact that teacher union power rests in their ability to force teachers and administrators to abide by the monopoly bargaining agreement. Mike Antonucci takes a look at some things in appearing in some of the largest school districts in the country’s contracts. The collective bargaining agreements for classroom teachers in New York City, Los…

A union member speaks out in the Providence Journal Online. By Brian Golas I’m a teacher at Coventry High School and have been teaching for 23 years. As a member of a teachers union, I have lobbied for my union, and have sat on a committee to interview people running for public office to decide if…