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Education
My true love gave to me a National Day of Action
Today is the union-sponsored National Day of Action, but you might be wondering what exactly that means. So I sifted…
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Education
Teachers’ union employees must be paid for jail time
Though I have written about the fact often, it bears repeating that the National Education Association and its affiliates are…
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Education
‘The union cares about all workers’
And that’s why it won’t let them resign their membership or negotiate their own salary, benefits and working conditions, according…
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Education
NEA has 99 problems but a pitch ain’t one
A National Education Association document details the compiled results of a brainstorming session of the union’s state affiliate leaders and…
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Education
School district size and the Goldilocks problem
Over the last century, the number of school districts in the United States has shrunk even as the population has…
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Law and Government
What you’re missing today
The TV news has wall-to-wall coverage of what is affected by the shutdown of the federal government, but it’s far…
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Education
Will New York teachers union get ‘one for the thumb?’
In 2001, the last time the United Federation of Teachers endorsed a candidate for mayor of New York City, it…
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Education
The most important public education issue no one talks about
The Wall Street Journal reported this morning on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest figures on the national…
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Education
Union president attacks 'austerity-mongers' in speech at Jamaica resort
American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten delivered the keynote speech last Monday at the annual conference of the Jamaica…
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Education
Randi Weingarten on book cooking
It’s not surprising that the Tony Bennett scandal would lead to calculated outrage from teacher union officers, but American Federation…
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Education
Indiana teachers union: By the way, we have a secret settlement fund with $14 million in it
I don’t buy this for a minute, but I’m obligated to report it in case I got it wrong: ISTA…
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Education
Indiana 'Ponzi-like scheme' will cost NEA $14 million
It didn’t take as long as I thought for the details to come out about the settlement between the state…
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