Tag: Teachers Unions

They Must Be Doing Something Right

Geoffrey Norman · July 14, 2014 4:32 pm

Teachers participate in an education budget cut rally and protest at Pershing Square on May 13, 2011 in downtown Los Angeles. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

Has teacher tenure driven a wedge between California Democrats and Big Labor?

Sean Higgins · July 9, 2014 10:00 am

Big Ideas: On Aereo, college tuition and teacher tenure

Joseph Lawler · July 3, 2014 3:25 pm

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Lawsuit could help free public schools from union shackles

Star Parker · June 21, 2014 10:00 am

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Hope and change: Rich liberals turn over leadership of group to teacher union honcho

Michael Barone · June 20, 2014 7:36 pm

Bangor, Mich., kindergarten teacher Kimberle Byrd thought that she was no longer a member of the Michigan Education Association. After all, the state had adopted a right-to-work law in late 2012, meaning workers couldn't be forced to join a union even if their workplace was organized. Since she hadn't re-upped her MEA membership after that, she assumed she was out. (Thinkstock)

Michigan teachers union attacks credit rating of member seeking to leave

Sean Higgins · June 16, 2014 10:36 pm

In this June 10, 2014, photo, Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent John Deasy checks his phone outside the Stanley Mosk Courthouse, before the verdict in the Vergara v. California lawsuit in Los Angeles. Even before a California judge's scathing ruling against the state's teacher tenure policies, protections that make it harder to fire teachers had already been weakened in many states, and even removed altogether in a few places. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Some states roll back teacher tenure protections

Kimberly Hefling · June 12, 2014 3:17 pm

A California Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday that the state's teacher tenure laws were unconstitutional, dealing a severe blow to the public sector unions who had fought to keep the status quo intact.ÃÂ (Thinkstock Image)

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In blow to unions, California teacher tenure laws found unconstitutional

Sean Higgins · June 10, 2014 7:47 pm

NYC teachers vote to accept new contract

Washington Examiner · June 3, 2014 11:05 pm

The National Education Association is seeing increased opposition to Common Core among its members, though a majority still support the move toward state standards in English and math.ÃÂ (Thinkstock Image)

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Teachers union survey shows growing concerns about Common Core

Ashe Schow · May 21, 2014 8:28 pm

Teacher salaries compete heavily with each other in Missouri

Kelly Cohen · May 19, 2014 11:31 am

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Examiner Editorial: Free students from failure with school choice for all

Washington Examiner · May 10, 2014 4:00 am