Larry Sand
UnionWatch
LOS ANGELES – The Michigan Education Association had its apple cart turned upside down when the Wolverine State went “right-to-work” in December.
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A better way to keep students safe at school
By Vicki E. Alger
Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
OKLAHOMA CITY – Most parents and policymakers believe their public schools are safe. They might change their minds if actual safety statistics were more transparent.
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Idaho legislature to decide fate of $30.6 million in unspent education reform funds
By Austin Hill
Idaho Reporter
BOISE, Idaho – Idaho’s sweeping education reform laws were overturned by voters in the November general election. But what has happened to the $30.6 million of state tax dollars that were appropriated to implement those reforms?
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Pennsylvania group starts website promoting full professional freedom for educators
By Ashleigh Costello
EAGnews.org
HARRISBURG, Penn. – The Commonwealth Foundation has introduced a new website that offers teachers an independent forum to learn about and discuss current educational issues, free from the pervasive influence of teachers unions.
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Calif. scrubs labor history week, designates May ‘Labor History Month’
By Larry Sand
UnionWatch
LOS ANGELES – As Kevin Dayton pointed out in Union Watch last week, the entire month of May is now officially deemed Labor History Month in California.
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Ambitious education reforms on the agenda for the Lone Star State
By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
AUSTIN, Texas – Two Texas lawmakers this week announced plans to reform education by expanding school choice and improving the state’s school accountability system, but they are already taking flack from the state’s teachers union and its allies.
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Education leaders want to shut down bad teacher college prep programs
By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
WASHINGTON, D.C. – At long last, K-12 reformers are getting to the root of things.
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Indiana Supt. Tony Bennett to become Florida’s next education commissioner
By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Former Indiana state Superintendent Tony Bennett may have lost re-election in his home state, but he isn’t finished with the fight to reform government education.
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California group thinks courthouse, not state house, offers best chance of winning K-12 reform fight
By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
LOS ANGELES – The battle to reform teacher tenure and end “last in, first out” school layoff policies has taken an unusual turn in California.
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Nevada’s new superintendent, 75-year-old James Guthrie, is still a passionate reformer
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
CARSON CITY, Nev. – James Guthrie may be 75 years old, but time has not extinguished his burning desire to improve public education.
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Does Milwaukee really want ‘star teachers’ who don’t prepare kids for the real world?
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
MILWAUKEE – A few weeks ago the MacIver Institute issued a report about a new screening process for teachers in Milwaukee Public Schools.
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Boston Globe columnist: If longer school days help kids, create more charters
By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
BOSTON – Beginning next fall, 40 schools in five states can begin using federal money originally intended for tutoring or after school programs to extend their school year by 300 hours.
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South Carolina unions sue to block $7 increase in health insurance payments
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Does anyone believe public sector unions are interested in helping cash-strapped governments or overburdened taxpayers save a few dollars?
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Illinois community learns a big lesson about unions during one-day teacher strike
By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
CARPENTERSVILLE, IL – That latest Illinois’ teachers strike ended the same day it began.
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Buffalo teachers union preventing district from receiving $33.4 million in state aid
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Across the nation, many local teachers unions are preventing extra state dollars from going to school districts until various items on their self-serving agendas are addressed.
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Grand Rapids teachers protest possible firing, replacement by TFA recruits
By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Teachers at Grand Rapids Union High School are upset over a plan to replace many of them with Teach for America recruits as part of an effort to dramatically improve academic outcomes.
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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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One-time charter school foe urges Washington State to embrace change
By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
SEATTLE – We’d like to officially welcome Miles Liatos to the school choice movement.
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Maine teachers union accepts a big salary cut to save student programs
By Ashleigh Costello
EAGnews.org
MADAWASK, Maine – A local teachers union in Maine has agreed to a sizable pay cut in order to avoid layoffs of younger teachers and the elimination of student programs.
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20,000 Illinois students idle as their teachers strike over salary
By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
CARPENTERSVILLE, IL. – The 20,000 students in Illinois’ Community Unit District 300 might not be spending much time in class this month.
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