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     MICHIGAN: A tea party group in Michigan’s Livingston County is attempting to recruit candidates to run for area school boards. The group wants to prevent the state’s largest teachers’ union – the Michigan Education Association – from electing union-friendly candidates who use their positions to push the MEA’s agenda.
    
     “For a number of years, [...]

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Milwaukee teachers union’s makes truly awful attempt to improve public relations

     Talk about a public relations stunt gone awry. 
     
     The Milwaukee Teachers Education Association (MTEA) is sponsoring a “Children’s Week” from April 22 through 29 in hopes of strengthening the bond between the community and the schools.
     
     To kick things off on a positive note, the union asked members to donate a week’s pay to [...]

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Sweet reforms, Alabama

    Next Monday, an Alabama school board will decide the fate of Drew Faircloth and Alicia Brown, two elementary teachers who allegedly ridiculed a 10-year-old student who suffers from cerebral palsy.
    
    Melisha Salinas claims the two teachers not only mocked her son for drooling (something he has no control over), but barely spent any time [...]

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Detroit students protest inadequate education

Excessive teacher absences, lack of homework is jeopardizing their futures

    
By Ben Velderman
EAG Communications
      
     DETROIT – According to students at Detroit Public Schools’ Frederick Douglass Academy, it’s become commonplace for large numbers of teachers to be absent at the same time, resulting in a teacher shortage. When that occurs, students are forced to spend their [...]

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Milwaukee teachers’ decision to put their own interests ahead of student needs proves EAG wrong

We thought union obstruction was the product of overbearing union bosses 
     MILWAUKEE – We’ve said it a thousand times: It is not teachers themselves who refuse to accept concessions to help their students, it’s the union bosses who run the show that are so stubborn.
     
     This week, 2,296 members of the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association proved [...]

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Did Connecticut school fire parent union president due to her education reform activism?

By Ben Velderman
EAG Communications
     NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A day after hosting a pro-education reform rally at the state capitol, the president of the Connecticut Parents Union was fired from her job as a workshop presenter with New Haven Public Schools’ Head Start Program.
     
     CTPU President Gwen Samuel believes the local teachers union – the [...]

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Illinois looks to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker for reforms

     Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s willingness to address his state’s problems head-on is not only drawing the attention of education reformers, it’s attracting leaders from other states struggling with many of the same problems he inherited as Wisconsin’s 45th governor.
    
     The Illinois Chamber of Commerce invited Walker to speak at its annual Springfield lobby day in [...]

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Reformers: Gov. Scott Walker is a “Rock Star of Ed Reform”

     Gov. Scott Walker’s move to curb the power of teachers unions and his reliably pro-student agenda is earning the applause of education reformers across the country, and last week he was officially dubbed a “Rock Star of Education Reform” by the Wisconsin Coalition of Virtual Charter School Families.
    
     “WEAC even tried to shut us [...]

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Education reformers send Wisconsin teachers union a message

     Education reformers with the group READER-WI (Reforming Education And Demanding Excellent Results) sent a message to taxpayers and union officials by way of a billboard on the Beltline near WEAC headquarters in Madison.  
    
     The humongous sign depicts a bummed-out school girl with a famous quote from former American Federation of teachers President Albert Shanker: [...]

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Who are these people?

     We recently documented the type of folks who are involved in the effort to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Video of a protest outside an Americans for Prosperity conference in Milwaukee revealed the participation of a very radical segment of society.
    
     But a series of other recent videos show that the union-sponsored protesters and their allies may [...]

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