Posts by Concerned Educators Against Forced Unionism
Biden limits Charter Schools as an AFT-NEA Teacher Union Payback Before Mid-Terms
No President has been more hostile to charters schools than Joe Biden, and his Department of Education is proving it with proposed rules that undermine the federal Charter Schools Program. The assault is triggering a bipartisan political backlash.
Read MoreMinnesota Teacher Union Bosses Ignore Reality
In 1997-1998, as education journalist Mike Antonucci recently noted, citing the archives of the Digest of Education Statistics, MPS “educated 49,157 students” at a cost of $13,076 per pupil in 2018 dollars.
By the 2017-18 academic year, MPS enrollment “had dropped to 32,722 students and the district spent $16,571” per pupil. That’s a 27% increase, above and beyond inflation as measured by the U.S. Labor Department.
Read MoreCEA Union Officials Back Down after Teacher Exercises Rights
CEA Union officials tried to limit educator’s First Amendment right to abstain from union financial support to arbitrary “escape period” With free legal aid from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Plainville Community School District educator Christina Corvello successfully exercised her First Amendment right to stop subsidizing the activities of a union she opposes.…
Read MoreBig Labor to Get Reward For Shuttering Schools?
Denver Politicians Poised to Hand Union Bosses Even More Power Over the course of the long and painful fight to reopen Colorado schools that had been shuttered late in the winter of 2020, putatively to “slow the spread” of the COVID-19 pandemic, it became impossible to ignore the fact that teacher union officials are the…
Read MoreTeacher Union Bosses Lose All Credibility
More and More Taxpayers Realize They’ve Been Played For Fools For more than a year and a half now, scientists around the world have recognized that the risk COVID-19 poses to any person depends heavily on age, and that the risk to school-aged children is lower than that of riding in a car or going…
Read MoreSpecial Legal Notice for Minneapolis and St. Paul Public School Teachers Ahead of Strike
Public educators have right to rebuff union officials’ demands that they abandon students, also have right to stop all dues deductions The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has issued a special legal notice to teachers and other staff at Minneapolis and St. Paul public schools, whom officials of the Minnesota Federation of Teachers…
Read MoreCA Charter School Receives Well-Deserved Refund from Union Bosses
From The Center Square: A California union has backed down after facing a potential legal action threatened by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation on behalf of a former California charter school teacher. A former Camino Nuevo Charter Academy teacher in Los Angeles, California, has received a refund for dues the union took from…
Read MoreBusted: Teacher Union Bosses Caught Illegally Seizing Dues from California Charter School Educator
Faced with potential legal action from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys, CTA union officials quickly backed down With free legal aid from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, a former teacher at Camino Nuevo Charter Academy in Los Angeles, California has received a refund of illegally seized union dues. The refund…
Read MoreFamilies Are Increasingly Fed up With Big Labor-Dominated K-12 Schools
American parents of school-aged children have long understood that it’s a bad idea for politicians to grant government union bosses monopoly-bargaining power over how teachers and other school employees are compensated and managed. Over the years, millions of mothers and fathers have expressed their considered views on this question by voting with their feet. The…
Read MoreBig Labor Lies to Teachers About Their Pensions
Young Teachers Should Know No Money May Be Left When They Retire For years now, many of the government retirement funds set up across the U.S. to ensure the pensions of K-12 employees and other public servants are safe have been in serious trouble. Forced-unionism Illinois is an especially egregious case. The Prairie State’s pension…
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