Heartland Daily Podcast – Heather Kays: Top Five Reasons Teachers Unions Must Change

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Heather Kays

Heather Kays is a research fellow of The Heartland Institute and managing editor of School Reform News, a national monthly publication. She has more than 12 years experience as a reporter and editor covering mostly education and politics. She has written for the Herald News, The Record (the second largest newspaper in New Jersey) and the Staunton, Virginia Gannett newspaper the News Leader. Kays has also worked for the nonprofit education policy and school choice news group, Choice Media. Her work has been published by USA Today, the Associated Press and various other newspapers and websites.

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In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, we listen in as Research Fellow Heather Kays joins the Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily Podcast with host Jamie Lund. Kays joins the podcast to discuss education policy and the top five reasons teachers unions must change.

​Kays and Lund discuss an article Kays wrote on the issue of teachers unions and how they negatively impact education. Kays says while there was a time and a place teachers unions made sense, now they have more power than is reasonable and are redundant since job protections laws now exist for everyone. Lund and Kays also discuss education policy in Washington state, where teachers unions have a huge amount of power.

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