Tag: Teachers Unions

In this 2013, photo provided by Center for Individual Rights, Rebecca Friedrichs, a veteran Orange County, Calif., school teacher, poses for a portrait. Friedrichs is the lead plaintiff in a case brought by group of California schoolteachers asking the Supreme Court to rule that unions representing government workers can't collect fees from those who choose not to join. (Greg Schneider/Courtesy of the Center for Individual Rights via AP)

Supreme Court agrees to hear major right-to-work case

Sean Higgins · June 30, 2015 7:18 pm

In a letter to the Senate, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights said it could not support the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act because the current version lacks any significant testing systems. (AP Photo)

Education fight pits teachers unions against civil rights activists

Sean Higgins · June 25, 2015 4:01 am

A student takes a standardized test.

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Education groups impatient over No Child Left Behind reform delays

Jason Russell · June 23, 2015 7:11 pm

In this photo taken Sept. 19, 2014, National Education Association (NEA) President Lily Eskelsen Garcia answers questions during an interview with The Associated Press in her office at NEA headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo)Â

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‘Teachers aren’t cops’: Unions praise Supreme Court ruling

Jason Russell · June 19, 2015 4:03 pm

When asked what would be the right mix of traditional public schools and charter schools, Randi Weingarten called it "a really false choice and false question...We need to make every public school a place where parents want to send their kids. (AP Photo)Â

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Major teachers union ready to work with charter schools

Jason Russell · June 15, 2015 8:42 pm

The president of the National Education Association, Lily Eskelsen Garcia, left, told the Washington Post the bill would not give students something better in the classroom, whileÂ American Federation of Teachers PresidentÂ Randi Weingarten expressed modest support. (Associated Press photos)

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Biggest teachers unions split over K-12 education bill

Jason Russell · April 13, 2015 6:11 pm

"Especially with this crazy political atmosphere, this is a place where we need to be lending support to middle-of-the-road Democrats and Republicans both, and this is part of that effort," Jeffrey Soth, the Operating Engineers' political director, told National Journal last year. (AP Photo)

GOP group’s super PAC mostly funded by unions

Sean Higgins · April 6, 2015 9:00 am

After uneven press, Scott Walker gets back to basics at CPAC

Rebecca Berg · February 26, 2015 11:52 pm

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Walker trumpets Wisconsin’s education reforms at CPAC

Jason Russell · February 26, 2015 10:58 pm

Christie Working With Teachers Union on Pension Reform

Michael Warren · February 24, 2015 2:23 pm

With reforms to No Child Left Behind up for debate, House Republicans are wisely proposing that low-income families be allowed to take a portion of their federal funding to different public schools of their choosing. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Federal K-12 funding should follow the student

Jason Russell · February 23, 2015 6:56 pm

Teachers' unions are attacking charter schools for supposedly "cherry-picking" which students to admit. (iStock Photo)

Damaging admissions

Thomas Sowell · February 17, 2015 7:37 pm