By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Officials with the California Teachers Association can obviously read the writing on the wall.
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Union, school officials sweep sex offenses under the rug, allowing ‘mobile molesters’ to strike again
Part 3 of 4
By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
SEATTLE – At Port Townsend High School near Seattle, basketball coach Randy Sheriff used drugs and alcohol to manipulate his star player – a 15-year-old girl – into a sexual relationship in the late 1980s.
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Attorney says parents of special-needs students should be alert for possible abuse
From media reports
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Child abuse in schools is unfortunately all too common. Tenure laws and protections offered by teachers unions often makes it very difficult and very costly to fire teachers, even those suspected of child abuse.
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School administrator pensions jump 650 percent in six years
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – While much scrutiny is paid to the unsustainability of teacher pensions, administrator retirement packages are spiraling out of control, as well.
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Dismissal rules for teachers must be fixed or children will continue to be in harm’s way
OAKLAND, Calif. – Parents were outraged in the Brentwood Union School District when a special education teacher was convicted of misdemeanor child abuse and instead of being fired, she was simply transferred to another department.
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Teacher for emotionally disturbed children busted for alleged sex with student
By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
GRANITE BAY, Calif. – A Placer County teacher faces charges of sex with a minor and oral copulation with a minor stemming from an allegedly inappropriate relationship with a teen she taught at a special needs school.
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Third Parent Trigger effort is launched in California, and officials expect little opposition
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
LOS ANGELES – The third chapter of California’s Parent Trigger saga is about to unfold, and officials are expecting the process to be much easier this time around.
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Could last week’s California high school shooting been avoided altogether?
By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
KERN COUNTY, Calif. – Last week’s shooting at California’s Taft High School could have been much worse without the heroic efforts of a school teacher and supervisor who talked the gunman down.
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California school district to name new elementary after a killer
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
SALINAS, Calif. – People who hate America are prepared to name a California elementary school after a famous criminal who hated America.
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Shocker! Obama stands up to teacher union friends in California
By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – President Obama and the California teacher unions are engaged in a battle of wills, but the only losers in this very public stare down will probably be the state’s public schools and their underserved students.
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California resident says unions need to be removed from the classroom
By Ashleigh Costello
EAGnews.org
SAN MARCOS, Calif. – A southern California resident is debunking the myth that smaller class sizes and increased teacher compensation promoted by teachers unions lead to better student performance.
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Teach for America heads for San Diego schools, despite union objections
By Ashleigh Costello
EAGnews.org
SAN DIEGO – After years of teacher layoffs, San Diego schools have agreed to partner with Teach for America to fill vacant positions at high-needs schools starting next fall.
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Editorial: Teachers union encourages envy instead of achievement
By Kyle Olson
EAGnews.org
SACRAMENTO – The blowback against the California Federation of Teachers “Tax the Rich” video – first covered by EAGnews – continues.
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Chicago Teachers Union latest to stoke class warfare with ‘Fat Cats’ video
By Kyle Olson
EAGnews.org
CHICAGO – On the heels of the controversial California Federation of Teachers “Tax the Rich” video, the Chicago Teachers Union has produced its own class warfare-stoking cartoon, “Stand Up to the Fat Cats.”
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UPDATE: After PR disaster, CFT sanitizes ‘Tax the Rich’ video but propaganda remains
By Kyle Olson
EAGnews.org
SACRAMENTO – The California Federation of Teachers created a public relations disaster when it produced a low-brow video featuring a depiction of “trickle down” economics as a “rich” person urinating on the “ordinary people.”
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California teachers union video features ‘rich’ urinating on the ‘poor’
By Kyle Olson
EAGnews.org
SACRAMENTO – A new video produced by the California Federation of Teachers – which could be playing in your child’s classroom as we speak – drums up the typical class warfare images we’ve come to expect from Big Labor.
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Republicans and conservatives have lost more than just an election
By Larry Sand
Union Watch
LOS ANGELES – There have been endless post mortems following Barack Obama’s election victory over Mitt Romney last week. It has been posited that Romney lost because he wasn’t libertarian enough, not Tea Party enough, not socially conservative enough, didn’t reach out to minorities, was too business-like, played it too nice in the debates, etc.
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Oakland teacher predicts ‘civil unrest’ over pension reform
By Kyle Olson
EAGnews.org
OAKLAND – California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a pension reform bill Wednesday which, among other things, increases the retirement age for future public employees, limits post-retirement employment for all employees and ends the purchasing of additional service credit time for all employees, according to California Federation of Teachers Legislative Representative Dolores Sanchez.
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“Educator workshops” aim to counter union’s anti-military influence in public schools
By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
SAN DIEGO – Teachers unions oppose a lot of valued American traditions, and military service is no exception.
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Court ruling allows California elementary to become nation’s first “parent trigger” school
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
ADELANTO, Calif. – The nation is about to have its first “parent trigger” school, thanks to the tireless efforts of a group of California parents who refused to be bullied by the self-serving public education establishment.
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