Many teachers are more concerned about students than union agenda
A new poll of more than 1,000 teachers reveals that rank-and-file union members are much more open to common sense education reforms than their radicalized leaders are.
According to a survey by the National Center for Educational Information, 59 percent of teachers favor the idea of [...]
If anything, study proves building-wide bonuses are pointless
Yesterday, the RAND Corporation released the results of a study that found merit pay had no effect on increasing student achievement or teacher motivation.
Teacher union supporters are gleefully promoting this study as proof that merit pay does not work.
Before the RAND study enters the information [...]
Taxpayers seeking evidence that teachers unions care about kids
If the Seattle Education Association and its state union get their way, children will bear the brunt of the state’s K-12 spending cuts.
Faced with a $4 million budget gap, Seattle school administrators want the union’s help in balancing the books. Officials are requesting the union accept [...]
With the guv’s ax hanging overhead, unions are finally offering necessary concessions
Apparently Ohio Gov. John Kasich knew exactly what he was doing.
Before he signed Senate Bill 5, which limits collective bargaining privileges, teachers unions throughout the state were slow to respond to calls for salary and benefit concessions.
They believed their members should [...]
With collective bargaining obstruction removed, schools can cut labor costs, use savings for students
Public school officials throughout Wisconsin can move ahead with plans to minimize the impact of pending cuts in state aid, now that the state Supreme Court has dismissed a lower court’s restraining order preventing Gov. Scott Walker’s budget repair bill from [...]
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 [...]
How teacher performance will be evaluated and by whom are key details as to whether or not this policy would improve state’s schools
Given that Illinois’ government is dominated by the labor unions, yesterday’s announcement that the state’s public schools will alter the “last in, first out” policy when laying off teachers is a promising [...]
Everyone will benefit if teacher unions’ “better angels” prevail in the pay freeze debate that is sweeping across the state.
Freezing teacher pay would not only help local schools weather the current budget crisis, but it would keep more teachers in the classroom – benefiting both students and the youngest teachers who would likely lose [...]
