teachers unions

When it comes to public charter schools and any meaningful education reform, the teachers unions are staunch reactionaries.

What has happened, what hasn’t happened, and why.

Two bills that would have deeply wounded the popular schools of choice are dead…for now.

Democratic contenders attempt to lock in teacher union endorsements to the detriment of taxpayers and the neediest students.

The Supreme Court’s Janus ruling is bringing out the worst from the defeated Left.

Arizona teachers have finally returned to their classrooms after a six-day strike over salary increases.

Our public schools went through a significant change during the Obama years, a change that was met with an unusual amount of criticism from the public, parents, and concerned education professionals.

Our country’s teachers unions are doing what they do best: throwing a childish tantrum and demanding they get more of your hard-earned tax dollars to spoil their underperforming members.

Randi Weingarten, the notorious president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), said at a recent AFT convention she and her cronies are going to say “hell no” to the Trump administration because of its support of education choice.

In New Hampshire, it’s déjà vu all over again.

Betsy DeVos survived a Senate confirmation process made bitter because of the opposition of the teachers unions, which fear that she can parlay her advocacy of school choice into much bigger gains for choice in her powerful new position.

The National Education Association (NEA), the nation’s largest labor union, sent a mass e-mail last week urging supports to “Tell your senators: Vote NO on Betsy DeVos.”

A new report published by the Manhattan Institute warns us of an impending crisis: In the coming years, taxpayers will continue to be taxed more heavily to pay for teachers’ retirements, teacher pension debt will keep growing, and children will suffer for it.