Teacher Rights

A veteran teacher and union member has been fired for alleged violence against students over at least the past 6 years.   Terrell Forney and Andrea Torres have the story on local10.com news. Throughout her two-decade career with Broward County Public Schools, Ava Williams was accused of twisting a student’s ear, hitting students’ in the back of their…

While rabble-rousing teacher union officials have returned to doing their job (teaching) parents are still stung by the effects of the strike.    They are taking their frustrations out on the school board. Additionally, newly-elected school board member Jackie Goldberg, supported by teacher union officials, welcomes feedback from labor unions.   This is another fine example of…

Veteran education expert Robert Holland proposes a long overdue idea – strike vouchers for parents, on heartland.org. It is about time someone in authority spoke up for parents and children who are the victim of teachers showcasing their demands by shirking their duties. Just before May Day, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster and state schools chief Molly…

Mike Antonucci reveals how NEA teacher union officials promote NEA values and why the media believe teacher unions speak for all teachers in his latest Union Report, including the actual NEA report on the74million.org. Teachers who wish to disconnect from NEA membership may visit myjanusrights.org for more information on how to resign membership. Each year, members of the National…

Here is another proof teacher union officials are not “all for the kids”.    Joseph Geha has the story on mercurynews.com. For the first time in three weeks, New Haven Unified School District teachers returned to classes in Union City and South Hayward after a 14-day strike finally ended over the weekend when a deal was…

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…