Archive for May 2019
Some Encouraging News on School Spending
Patrick Gleason, writing in Forbes Magazine, has some encouraging news about school choice and school spending. It looks like perhaps teacher union officials have used a recent presidential stump speech in South Carolina as an excuse to encourage May Day protests that may close schools in that state. And of course teacher union officials are…
Read MoreChild of Union Parents Reflects on Teacher Union Leadership Part 2
Laura Waters continues her reflections on teacher union leadership in educationpost.org. It’s still possible for union leaders to ethically and smartly represent members. What keeps teachers union leaders from doing this? One reason is that good teachers are treated like widgets, interchangeable cogs in a machine. That’s because union leaders are adamantly opposed to differentiating pay based…
Read MoreDC Charter School Hopes to Affiliate with American Federation of Teachers
For all of teacher union officials’ railing against charter schools, it seems they aren’t such a bad deal as long as they want to become unionized by the American Federation of Teachers. Who could trust union officials who publicly come out in opposition to, and work against political supporters of, charter schools? Apparently these charter…
Read MoreChild of Union Parents Reflects on Teacher Unions
If a union is good, people will join. If a union is not good teachers should not be forced to join. A child of enthusiastic union member parents, Laura Waters, mother, education blogger and former school board president, reflects on current union agendas and why her proud union member parents would not be celebrating May Day as…
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