Teacher Rights

With the United Teachers of Los Angeles on their backs, California legislators are considering a moratorium on the establishment of new charter schools three NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) boards are insisting the moratorium will tarnish the Golden State.   Esmeralda Fabián Romero has the story in LASchoolReport. The San Diego, Riverside and San…

Parent Wanda Colon makes a plea for more charter schools in New York City.  There is currently a cap on charter schools put in place by Governor  Andrew Cuomo, backed by teacher union approval. In my neighborhood, a good school is hard to find. Trust me – I have looked. I live in the Bronx, New York,…

Richard Whitmire gives an insightful look into teacher union power and its influence on the press in the74million.org.   He describes how the pendulum has swung in and out of favor of charter schools, with the deciding factor being the dependence of many education writers on the opinion of teacher union officials.  He recommends reports instead observe…

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…

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…

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…

North Carolina teacher union officials are planning a protest in the state capital, Raleigh, that will not only close schools but block traffic in the city and inconvenience taxpayers and other government workers as they attempt to get to their jobs and provide for their families.    If #RedforEd does not have a bad reputation now,…