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Posted by Jonathan Levin on January 18, 2016 20 Comments
Oral argument in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association was a disaster for public unions.

Posted by Anne Segal on March 22, 2013 16 Comments
Yesterday the Chicago Public Schools announced 61 school building closures, including 52 elementary schools, due to a $1 billion budget deficit. This is the largest closing in the district’s history, and the reaction from the teachers union has been swift. A few weeks ago, noted radical...

Posted by Anne Segal on March 08, 2013 11 Comments
Last week. the Alabama legislature passed a bill approving school choice in a speedy series of votes that, according to one report, left the Senate “in chaos” when the Democrats realized what had happened. In reaction to being out-gamed, Democrats in the state House and...

Posted by Anne Segal on November 12, 2012 25 Comments
Teachers filled the ranks at the 2012 Midwest Marxism Conference, which was held Saturday at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Jesse Sharkey, who spoke at one of the breakout sessions, was just one of the hundreds of attendees, many...

Posted by Anne Segal on September 18, 2012 7 Comments
The Chicago Teachers Union’s House of Delegates voted Tuesday afternoon to suspend the strike while refraining from ratifying the current contract yet. According to reports, the contract, which comes with an annual price of $74M, will be ratified in the coming weeks. The strike lasted...

Posted by Anne Segal on September 17, 2012 21 Comments
The Chicago Teachers Union strike continues Monday after a failure to resolve the strike, now into its second week with 350,000 children affected by the standoff. There had been some optimism that the union officials, who met Sunday afternoon, would vote in favor of the...

Posted by Anne Segal on September 13, 2012 14 Comments
The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) has announced their strike will continue into Friday–despite an offer from Jesse Jackson to mediate–after CTU President Karen Lewis said she’s “optimistic, but we’re still hammering things out.” At the heart of the standstill is accountability: merit pay, the evaluation...

Posted by Matthew Knee on November 22, 2011 3 Comments
Fresh off seeing Alan Grayson ads all over conservative blogs (including LI), I’m now seeing an independent expenditure campaign against Scott Brown that highlights his conservative votes. Ironically, it might even be helpful to Brown for such ads to appear on sometimes-skeptical conservative sites to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 11, 2011 6 Comments
is pretty well set out in this article in The Providence Journal about intimidation of legislators who are considering reforms needed to save Rhode Island from fiscal collapse (see my post yesterday for background): Philip Keefe, the president of the second-largest state employees union, the...

Posted by Michael Alan on July 08, 2011 9 Comments
Edward Larkin, a professor of German at the public University of New Hampshire, plead guilty in November 2009 to charges accusing him of exposing himself to a 17 year old girl and her mother earlier that year. Despite this, he is still fully employed at...
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