Archive for June 2019

The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation’s Janus Supreme Court decision has given every public school teacher the right to resign his or her union membership and not pay dues or fees to an unwanted union. A former “Strike Captain” in the Oakland California school district is now rethinking his decision to encourage fellow…

A dangerous Illinois bill attempts to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.  It would bind employees to paying unwanted union dues with no escape except for a few days every year with automatic renewal if the member fails to respond during those few days.  What kind of rights are those?  THEY ARE…

Will  Marshall and Emily Langhorne, both employees of the Progressive Policy Institute, debunk some of Bernie Sanders’ myths about public schools in the New York Daily News.  They prove, once again, how much Bernie Sanders wants the teacher union vote. His plan duly echoes the unions’ litany of self-serving and bogus complaints about charters: that…

New York legislators (mostly Democrat) are acting very undemocratically by pushing (at teacher unions’ bidding no doubt) for stricter charter school laws. The New York Post Editorial Board has the story. It’s a shameless display of fealty to the unions — at the expense of children seeking a better future than is offered by the regular…

Disaffiliation from parent unions is not a new practice by any means, but seems to be gaining momentum. Realizing the union practice of a unified membership structure would benefit the NEA, in 1972 officials began a unification membership program whereby all state and local affiliates must affiliate with the national NEA.  One example is the…

Disaffiliation from parent unions is not a new practice by any means, but seems to be gaining momentum. Realizing the union practice of a unified membership structure would benefit the NEA, in 1972 officials began a unification membership program whereby all state and local affiliates must affiliate with the national NEA.  One example is the…

Mike Antonucci takes an eye-opening look at labor costs in education and why  you should pay attention to them in laschoolreport.com. Any debate about public education finances invariably devolves to whether we are spending enough “in the classroom” and how much “administrative bloat” there is. Textbooks, maintenance, facilities, curriculum and student programs all come under scrutiny,…