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 [...]
By Ben Velderman
EAG Communications
Legislation that would require Florida teachers to grade parents has cleared its first legislative hurdle.
House Bill 543 recently passed the House K-20 Competitiveness Committee on a party line vote of 10 to 3, reports WCTV.
The proposed law, which was introduced by Republican state Rep. Kelli Stargel, would grade parents [...]
In Illinois, the 280-member Zion-Benton Federation of Teachers wrapped up its four-day strike against students and taxpayers last week.
Even though teachers’ contracts are considered “evergreen” – meaning they stay in effect until a new pact is reached – Zion-Benton union members decided to strike based on the myth that they had been “working [...]
Parent Revolution’s Ben Austin calls out AFT President Weingarten in open letter
The recent revelation that the Connecticut branch of the American Federation of Teachers used its political power to neuter that state’s parent trigger proposal has caused a lot of public embarrassment for the teachers union.
Perhaps even more significantly, the union’s subterfuge has repulsed [...]
Parents, not teacher unions, are best equipped to know what works for individual children
In a new Associated Press story about the many states that are considering school voucher programs, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten is quoted as saying that vouchers “don’t work.”
By that, she is referring to studies that back up her [...]
Students deserve a new approach after years of dismal graduation rates
An outside consulting group will be heading to Columbus’ South High to do what school and union officials have failed to do for years: improve student academics and the district’s dismal graduation rate.
Currently, less than half of the students who attend South High [...]
At its March 2001 conference, The California Federation of Teachers adopted a resolution supporting convicted cop-killer Wesley Cook, also known as Mumia Abu-Jamal.
On April 14, the National Fraternal Order of Police sent a letter to American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, asking them to “publicly reject this repugnant resolution.”
On [...]
Scandal illustrates why more accountability is necessary
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten has delivered some fiery speeches and combative statements in recent years, including passionate arguments in favor of a teaching profession with the supposed ability to police itself.
But a recent speech in which Weingarten plagiarized a New York television reporter will [...]
Unions have a long history of protecting the worst within their ranks
In a recent interview on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten responded to a viewer’s question about teacher tenure protecting unworthy educators by saying that the unions should be allowed to “police their own profession” for bad apples.
Really?
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