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Now Add More Mr. Nice Guy – How To Oppose Public Sector Unions Without Opposing Public Sector Workers

Posted by Matthew Knee on April 08, 2011 8 Comments

by Matthew Knee Yesterday was a good day for the reformers. Prosser seems to have won, and Tuesday’s election holds promising signs for the recalls. However, the fight in Wisconsin is far from over, and is likely to repeat itself in other states. While all...

Polling 101, Session 4: Evaluating The Public Employee Union Polls

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 10, 2011 0 Comments

This is the fourth in a series of GUEST POSTS by Matthew Knee, a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University specializing in campaigns and elections, ethnic voting patterns, public opinion, and quantitative and experimental approaches to political science.___________________ Today I will provide an overview of the polling...

50-State Union Protest Falls Far Short Of Predicted Turnout

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 26, 2011 40 Comments

Protests in support of Wisconsin public sector unions were organized by MoveOn.org and labor unions today. Promoters, such as David Dayen at Firedoglake, were predicting a million-person turnout nationwide. But reports as of 7:00 E.S.T. today make clear that other than in Madison, Wisconsin, the crowds were sparse....

Providence School Board Approves Plan To Send Layoff Notices To All Teachers

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 24, 2011 11 Comments

The Providence, RI, School Board voted tonight to send layoff notices to every teacher in the school district, approving a plan about which I posted earlier, Providence Teachers Union Head Compares Layoff Notices To Pearl Harbor Attack. The notices are required to be sent by...

Think about the … teachers?

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 18, 2010 5 Comments

The WSJ today had a fascinating article about how hard it is to fire teachers, particularly ones with tenure, in NJ. James Smith, the head of security of Paterson NJ’s public schools, gave a great insight to the protections offered to teachers, even when they...

Unions Pushing States Toward Broken Promises

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 11, 2010 3 Comments

Rhode Island is the poster child for how municipal employee and teachers unions have devastated state and local budgets through unsustainable contracts obtained through political contributions. Rhode Island is drowning in pension promises it cannot meet and benefits it cannot pay. Yet the municipal employee...

Union Teacher Hangs Obama In Effigy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 18, 2010 11 Comments

Barack Obama backed the decision of the Central Falls School District in Rhode Island to fire all teachers at its underperforming high school, much to the anger of teachers’ unions. Now a teacher at the school has hung Obama in effigy: Responding to a rumor...

Professional Agitator Lisa Fithian Caught on Tape at Columbia With Pro-Hamas Mob

Posted by Mary Chastain on May 01, 2024 65 Comments

Fithian helped agitate Occupy Wall Street, other protests against Israel, Ferguson, and Chicago Teachers Union.

Main Stream Media Panics Over K-12 Education Transparency Proposals

Posted by Jeff Reynolds on January 21, 2022 50 Comments

Bills in numerous states proposing that K-12 materials be posted on the internet so parents can see what is being taught have teachers unions and mainstream media crying out loud.

Parents Retake Control In Virginia, Leading Glenn Youngkin To Victory Over Terry McAuliffe

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 03, 2021 36 Comments

Parents want to retake control of their children's educations from the far left educational infrastructure and the teachers unions. It's the civil rights issue of our time. Democrats who don't run from Critical Race Theory and its variants will be swept away, even in blue Virginia.

In “Blue” Rhode Island, Parents Are Seeing “Red” and Rising-Up Against Critical Race Theory

Posted by Mike Stenhouse on July 24, 2021 41 Comments

A grassroots revolt in the bluest of blue states against an entrenched "woke" educational bureaucracy and teachers unions is a sign how the movement is sweeping the nation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZSxmyjKGEY

Newsom Offers California Schools $2 billion in ‘Incentives’ to Reopen by April 1

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 03, 2021 18 Comments

The California Teachers Union: Getting richer by refusing to work while everyone else clamors to return to their jobs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0OSDMGKtdg

Chicago Public Schools Continue Remote Learning With Two-Day ‘Cooling Off’ Period

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 02, 2021 21 Comments

But will the Chicago Teachers Union make negotiating any easier these next two days?

Legal Insurrection obtains TRO preserving records of anti-Israel 3rd Grade event

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 09, 2015 23 Comments

Ithaca Teachers union tells members not to turn over records on personal electronic devices and email. (See Update - Has the story changed?)

Rebuke of Charter Schools is Hillary’s Latest Flip Flop

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 12, 2015 7 Comments

This just might have something to do with teachers unions.

Cook County (IL) State’s Attorney Democratic Primary Race a Mess After 10,000 ‘Mistakenly Left Out’

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 25, 2024 21 Comments

The Democrat's preferred candidate wasn't winning. The county still needs to count 3,500 mail-in ballots. How much would you bet that these uncounted ballots give Clayton Harris the win?

The Democratic Socialists of America Are Far More Active in K-12 Education Than Many People Realize

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 23, 2023 3 Comments

"The Democratic Socialists of America, or DSA, has long had the goal of using the K-12 system as a way to proselytize to a captive audience of other people’s children"

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