By Victor | Published: April 6, 2012
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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By Victor | Published: March 23, 2012
A new “MetLife Survey of the American Teacher” finds that over “the past two years there has been a significant decline in teachers’ satisfaction with their profession.”
In that time, “teacher satisfaction has decreased by 15 points” and “is coupled with large increases in the number of teachers who indicate that they are likely [...]
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By Victor | Published: March 16, 2012
Michigan legislators recently passed a pair of laws that have the Michigan Education Association seeing red.
Last week, lawmakers passed a bill prohibiting schools from “initiating, creating, or contributing to the formation or administration of any labor organization,” reports MLive.com. In other words, they can no longer deduct union dues from employees paychecks.
Gov. [...]
By Ben | Published: November 17, 2011
HAINESPORT, New Jersey – The Hainesport Township School District needs to cut expenses, and officials think outsourcing the school’s custodial, maintenance and groundskeeping jobs to private, for-profit companies might be one way of doing so.
This has caused Hainesport’s school employee unions to launch a scare campaign against the concept of privatization. At a recent [...]
By Victor | Published: September 29, 2011
Poll focuses on obstructing needed reforms, instead of inspiring them
The Michigan Education Association announced this week that a public poll it funded reveals that Michigan residents agree with the union’s take on pending education reforms.
The EPIC/MRA survey results also show that respondents don’t think too much of Gov. Rick Snyder, state Republican lawmakers [...]
By Victor | Published: September 19, 2011
Recalls are motivated by the union’s self interest, not taxpayers
The Michigan Education Association is sending state Rep. Paul Scott a message:
If you are endorsed by the union, you better vote the MEA way, or else.
Scott, who received the union’s endorsement in the 2010 elections, had the audacity to support reforms to Michigan’s antiquated [...]
By Victor | Published: June 21, 2011
Governor’s plan shows he understands how to fix failing schools
There is finally light at the end of the tunnel for Michigan’s worst schools.
Gov. Rick Snyder unveiled a first-of-its-kind plan this week to create a new school district for failing Detroit public schools – and eventually the worst 5 percent in the state – that [...]
By Ben | Published: December 7, 2010
The Michigan Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union, saw its membership shrink while it paid its leadership substantially more over the past year, according to the union’s LM-2 report recently filed with the federal Department of Labor.
The MEA’s ‘Million Dollar Quartet’ – Executive Director Luigi Battaglieri, President Iris Salters, Vice President Steven Cook and [...]
