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Teacher union twaddle is not fooling the nation’s moms any more.
National Education Association president Dennis Van Roekel wrote a tired piece for Huffington Post last week in which he trotted out all the usual phrases and suspects that we have come to expect from a union boss who is trying to scare us [...]
It seems as if most of the civilized world is squaring off against the teachers unions these days; California’s SB 441 is the latest battle.
As a way to put some teeth in a moribund teacher evaluation system in California, State Senator Ron Calderon has written SB 441, a very modest bill, which would [...]
CTA sponsors a resolution demonizing what it perceives to be faux Democrats.
At last week’s California Democratic Party convention in Sacramento, the California Teachers Association went into attack mode, sponsoring a resolution suggesting that two organizations run by prominent Democrats are backed by dastardly corporate Republican types.
WHEREAS, the so-called “reform” initiatives [...]
A recent vote by the United Teachers of Los Angeles suggests that a radical faction is in charge, its president “leads from behind” and almost half its teachers don’t care.
At the beginning of April, the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) decided to put a hard-hitting initiative before its members.
…UTLA [...]
Is it okay for a “parent advocate” to send her kids to a private school while maintaining that your kids remain in a failing government run school?
Last week, via the blogosphere, we learned that education reform leader Michelle Rhee sends one of her two kids to a private school. One post asks the question, [...]
Schlitz may be the beer that made Milwaukee famous, but recently the spotlight has been shining on the city’s school choice efforts.
Back in 1990, the Pleistocene Era of education reform, the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program became the nation’s first publicly funded school choice program for low-income children. Born of an interesting political marriage [...]
Thoughts on my recent encounter with the president of the California Teachers Association.
I was quite surprised when California Teachers Association president Dean Vogel agreed to join a panel that consisted of Gloria Romero, Terry Moe and me a couple of weeks ago at an event sponsored by
A mental disorder has come to California, but for the afflicted — mostly teacher union types — it manifests itself in a partisan way.
Voters were not swayed by outsiders and their millions…The public wants Board members who will listen to the community—not be beholden to their billionaire benefactors.
So harrumphed an indignant [...]
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