By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
WASHINGTON,D.C.– Teacher union leaders are pushing for higher taxes on the wealthy – also known as “the 1%” – to help bail out the nation’s public schools, many of which spend 80 percent of their budgets on Big Labor costs.
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MADISON, Wis. – EAGnews.org has completed an investigation into the links between radical people and organizations and the “mainstream” labor unions that have been the public face of the massive demonstrations, occupation of the capitol and recall efforts of 2011 and 2012. Our research shows there is a much broader agenda at play in Wisconsin.
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By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
SEATTLE – An anti-bullying speaker at the recent National High School Journalism Conference used his keynote address to deliver a blistering attack on Christians and the Bible.
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By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
RALEIGH, N.C. – North Carolina may join the growing list of states that have tackled the teacher tenure problem.
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By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg obviously means business.
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CHICAGO – Last Friday, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker spoke at lunch in Chicago. Of course it is no surprise a protest ensued.
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By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
BRECKSVILLE, Ohio – The effort to end a long tradition of secrecy and open school union contract negotiations to the public is gaining steam across the nation, despite the objections of labor leaders.
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By Bill Armistead
Commentary from oanow.com
HOMEWOOD, Ala. – If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always gotten. Alabama’s students know far too well how true that statement really is.
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By RiShawn Biddle
Dropout Nation
PHILADELPHIA – Perhaps Philadelphia School District boss Thomas Knudsen and the state-controlled school board read the proverbial writing on the wall — or merely checked out Dropout Nation’s commentary earlier this year on the traditional district’s flagging fortunes.
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By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
CARSON CITY, Nev. – Is teacher tenure a “human right”?
That’s what the head of the Nevada State Education Association seemed to suggest in a television interview last weekend.
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By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
GREENVILLE, Ala. - Alabama’s Butler County Board of Education recently passed a resolution opposing lawmakers’ efforts to allow charter schools into the Yellowhammer State.
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By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
JAMAICA PLAIN, Mass. – A group calling itself FairTest.org has collected the endorsements of various far left groups, including the National Education Association, to join in “the fight to roll back high stakes testing requirements in the nation’s schools,” EducationNews.org reports.
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By Ava Hill
MLive.com letter to the editor
JENISON, Mich. – I think that students should recite the Pledge of Allegiance every day in school because it doesn’t take very long. I know that because our class takes 17 seconds to say it. I think that we should because a lot of soldiers and U.S. Marines died in the war and a lot of people protected our nation. Many soldiers made sure that we could be free from Adolf Hitler in WWII.
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By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
MADISON, Wis. – Big Labor is throwing good money after bad with a last-minute $1 million advertising blitz for its chosen candidate in the gubernatorial recall election, despite signs of strong support for another candidate in the primary.
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By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
HARTFORD, Conn. – Efforts to revamp Connecticut’s ineffective public education system are at risk of becoming a farce.
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By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
LANSING, Mich. – Education reformers in Michigan have been hoping that a union-led petition drive to eliminate the state’s emergency manager law would not reach the November ballot.
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By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
TRINADAD, Colo. – The school district budget battle in a Colorado community has reportedly gotten so bad that a local woman was arrested for phoning in a death threat against the superintendent.
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By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
CHERRY HILL, N.J. – The latest “Teachers Behaving Badly” story has surfaced in a New Jersey elementary school.
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By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
RACINE, Wis. – Former Racine Unified school district board member Brian Dey has had his fair share of run-ins with the district’s teachers union.
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