By Alissa Marsh
EAGnews.org
ROSCOMMON, Mich. – Roscommon Area Public School teachers decided that efficiency and their students were more important than their loyalty to the Michigan Education Association when they decided to leave the parent union last year.
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By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
AUGUSTA, Maine – Maine Gov. Paul LePage proposed two new education reform bills this week that have the state’s teachers union in a tizzy.
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By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
LANSING, Mich. – Michigan teachers unions are finally going to have to collect member dues on their own.
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By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
LANSING, Mich. – In the wake of Michigan officially becoming a “right-to-work” state in March, some pro-union teachers are looking to drop their Michigan Education Association affiliation, in hopes that another bargaining agent will be more responsive to their needs.
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By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
SAGINAW, Mich. – Teachers in Michigan’s Buena Vista School District may not receive any more paychecks until the district gets its finances in order.
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By Trevor TenBrink
EAGnews.org
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – We’ve seen a growing number of local unions break ties with state and national unions in K-12 school districts in recent years.
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By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
MUSKEGON, Mich. – When times were tough in the past and teachers in the Muskegon, Michigan school district faced layoffs, seniority determined who stayed and who left.
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By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
MANCHESTER, N.H. – Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas has his education priorities straight.
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By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
MIDLAND, Mich. – Dozens of Michigan school districts have agreed to new contracts with their teachers unions to avoid provisions in the state’s right-to-work law.
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By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
AUGUSTA – Charter schools are under attack in Maine.
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By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
LANSING, Mich. – Michigan’s right-to-work law becomes official today, but most unionized workers will have to wait until their current labor contract expires before they can opt out of their union.
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By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
PONTIAC, Mich. – Another school district is headed for the Intensive Care Unit, courtesy of organized labor.
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By Kyle Olson
EAGnews.org
STRONGSVILLE, Ohio – I was deeply troubled when video surfaced last week of striking Strongsville, Ohio teachers heckling substitute teachers who were applying to be their temporary replacements.
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From news service reports
DETROIT – Michigan’s Right to Work law takes effect March 27th, and union-friendly school boards are rushing to approve new contracts to limit its impact.
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From news service reports
ROSCOMMON, Mich. – Jim Perialas, president of the Roscommon Teachers Association, writes in the Detroit News that his union’s decision to leave the Michigan Education Association because it is a “bureaucratic behemoth with poor customer service.”
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By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
LANSING, Mi. – It’s become all-too-common for teachers unions, and sometimes school administrators, to use students as sympathetic props for their political causes.
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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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By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
LANSING, Mich. – A new state right-to-work law is scheduled to liberate thousands of Michigan employees in less than six weeks.
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By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
PONTIAC, Mich. – Want to know how much respect and concern the teachers union has for the hard-working taxpayers of Michigan?
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By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
LANSING, Mich. – Details are beginning to emerge about the new round of education reforms Michigan lawmakers are planning for 2013, and they contain a little something for education reformers and public school apologists alike.
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