The Education Action Group commends Laingsburg school officials and teachers union members for agreeing to a new contract that temporarily freezes teacher pay and jettisons union-owned MESSA health insurance for comparable – and much less expensive – coverage.
As a result of these concessions, Laingsburg Community Schools will save enough money to recall eight [...]
Are Grand Blanc teachers cutting classes to make time for politics?
The Michigan Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union, is openly working to recall Gov. Rick Snyder and several Republican members of the state legislature, including State Rep. Paul Scott, R-Grand Blanc.
That’s certainly the union’s right.
But do union teachers have a right to let summer school [...]
Focus is now on teacher performance instead of union preference
The new tenure rules signed into law yesterday by Gov. Rick Snyder inject much-needed accountability into the state’s public school system.
Under the new laws, teacher tenure will be more difficult to attain and more challenging to retain. That is how it should be.
Lawmakers [...]
School board, union differ on whether concessions might have spared some teachers their job
When the Goodrich school board voted late last month to lay off 14 teachers, board members blamed the layoffs and subsequent increase in class sizes, in part, on the Goodrich Education Association’s refusal to make any wage concessions.
The GEA has [...]
State may be on the brink of ending undue labor influence in education
Yesterday, Michigan state representatives voted to eliminate antiquated seniority rules that measure a teacher’s worth by time spent with the district instead of the quality of work in the classroom.
The House also voted to raise the bar on granting teacher tenure, [...]
From Pennsylvania to Oregon, unions want more money even if it results in kids doing with less
For decades, the nation’s teacher unions have billed themselves as the defenders of public education. Americans were told that the unions only wanted to strengthen public schools for the sake of the students.
The unions continually pressed for [...]
Torturous tenure process makes cash-strapped schools eager to settle
Let the following be Exhibit A in the case of how teacher tenure is a destructive force in Michigan’s public education system:
Today’s Jackson Citizen Patriot reports, “A former Stockbridge High School teacher accused of threatening to kill the principal signed a severance agreement that will [...]
Union leaders show no respect for the people who fund the schools and pay for teacher salaries
Michigan Education Association leaders say their internal plans regarding a possible statewide teachers strike are none of the public’s business.
And they are still refusing to release the results of a statewide vote that would tell us if the [...]
Unions’ angry reaction to legislation reveals concern that many teachers would opt out
Like any common playground bully, the unions must use coercion to keep its “friends” in line.
Since the late 1970s, Florida’s teacher unions have used automatic payroll deductions to keep teachers’ dues flowing into their coffers. As a result of automatic [...]
