Archive for February 2019

Colorado Governor Jared Polis refused to intervene so Denver teacher union officials are calling a strike to begin on Monday, the first since 1994.  The call for state intervention  has supposedly kept the strike from occurring for weeks.  Insisting they will keep all schools open during the strike, Denver Public Schools goes on to admit…

Mike Antonucci outlines the difference between the Oakland and recent Los Angeles strikes.  The Oakland strike, while approved by a majority of union members there, will not take place for at least another week while both sides await a fact-finding report. The major issue is pay in the Oakland strike, whereas the UTLA strike focused on…

The title of Lance Izumi’s opinion piece says it all:  LAUSD teachers should exercise their Janus rights, not follow their union off a fiscal cliff.  Writing in the Los Angeles Daily News about the recent Los Angeles Teacher Union’s latest and greatest strike spectacle, warns teachers and  the public exactly what  Alex Caputo-Pearl and his minions have…

It’s time the public knows the undeniable motivation behind strikes. Professor Terry Moe is the most respected name in education reform today, serves as the Chairman of Stanford University’s Department of Political Science. Additionally he is the William Bennett Monroe Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. In his…

Mike Antonucci explains how much union officials who called the LA strike actually negotiated for their members.  Such a deal! Kyle Stokes of LAist covered the Los Angeles teacher strike like a blanket, and his most recent find is a side agreement between the district and union regarding how teacher pay will be reduced for the days missed during the…

Larry Sand’s poignant review of the United Teachers of Los Angeles’ union strike continues. Serious education reformers? They, too, gave UTLA’s theatrics zero stars. As Chris “Citizen” Stewart solemnly notes, “I look at this and other teacher tantrums with a stoic gaze because between yesterday and today nothing material has changed for the undereducated children of…