This fall, Ohio taxpayers will decide the fate of Senate Bill 5, a law designed, in part, to save Ohio’s public schools from out-of-control labor costs.
To help Ohio citizens better understand how schools are spending their precious tax dollars, Education Action Group is unveiling a new database containing the collectively bargained teacher contracts [...]
265 teachers get pink slips, academic programs on the chopping block
To understand the destructive effect teachers unions have on public education, consider what is happening Pennsylvania’s Allentown School District.
Yesterday, 265 teachers were given layoff notices, which will swell class sizes and jeopardize the future of many art, music, library and physical education programs [...]
Lawrence Education Association demands welfare from taxpayers to help pay union president’s salary
Remember when teachers and other government workers were called “public servants”?
The teachers who comprise the Lawrence Education Association certainly don’t see themselves that way. In fact, those union educators seem to think taxpayers are “union servants.”
The union’s upside down perspective was made [...]
Monday’s vote by the state Senate to scrap collective bargaining privileges for teacher unions means that Tennessee taxpayers (the folks who pay for public schools) will now be able to run those schools as they choose – without interference from the special interest group known as the Tennessee Education Association.
Once this bill is [...]
Switching from MESSA insurance and implementing temporary pay freezes would save teaching jobs, academic programs for students
It has been widely reported that Gov. Rick Snyder’s proposed cuts to K-12 education would cause mass teacher layoffs and cuts to academic programs for many Michigan school districts.
But is that true?
Not necessarily, according to research conducted [...]
As Pennsylvania lawmakers look for ways to close the state’s $4 billion budget gap, including cuts in K-12 spending, Education Action Group is unveiling a new database to help educate Pennsylvania taxpayers about how wisely local schools are spending their money.
EAG is a national education reform organization focused on reforming public school spending [...]
As Illinois lawmakers look for ways to close the state’s $15 billion budget gap, Education Action Group is unveiling a new database to help educate Illinois taxpayers about how local schools are spending their money.
EAG is a national education reform organization focused on reforming public school spending and holding vested interests accountable.
EAG has gathered [...]
The teachers collective bargaining agreement is full of unnecessary, costly provisions
The citizens and board members of the Wichita school district should take a close look at unnecessary labor costs before making any budget cuts that negatively impact students, like a suggested four-day school week.
Many of those unnecessary costs are written into the teachers union collective [...]
It’s not about you, it’s about the kids.
That’s our message to both the Clairton Education Association and district administrators, two groups that seem to have forgotten that the purpose of public education is to educate children, not to cater to the financial needs of adult workers.
Whether it’s the collectively-bargained teacher contracts that [...]
Site comes just in time for Sunshine Week 2011
During Wisconsin’s ongoing brouhaha, Gov. Walker repeatedly said that public sector workers’ collective bargaining privileges needed to be reined in to help fill in the state’s $3.6 billion budget gap.
Public union contracts are chock full of expensive and unnecessary provisions that drain the public treasury [...]
