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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Will Wisconsin’s teachers union actually help education, instead of siphoning its resources?
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Education Association Council – the statewide teachers union – is having a special representative assembly Dec. 1 to talk about the future.
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Chicago officials offer compromise on school closings
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
CHICAGO – Chicago school officials have not learned their lesson about caving in to the teachers union.
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Springfield school board, teachers union tell concerned taxpayers to mind their own business
By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Like a lot of school districts around the country, Illinois’ Springfield Public Schools are in serious financial trouble.
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Chicago Teachers Union fights school closures necessitated by high labor costs
By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
CHICAGO – The Chicago Teachers Union recently secured a “cake” contract for its members during the September teachers strike.
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Portland teacher workshop focuses on grooming K-12 students to become radical activists
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
PORTLAND, Oregon – Elected officials, parents and taxpayers have been scratching their heads for years, wondering what’s wrong with America’s public education system.
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NEA, Big Labor hit the airwaves with their ‘Robin Hood’ tax plan
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s bad enough that the National Education Association and other major labor unions use money stolen from their members’ paychecks to purchase victories for their pets candidates in national and state elections.
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Ability to collect agency fees from non-members may be secret to teacher unions’ power
By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In early 2011, producers for the radio program This American Life caused a brief media sensation when they announced they had discovered the original formula for Coca-Cola.
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Union VP threatens school board, vows ‘no peace’ in Chicago
By Kyle Olson
EAGnews.org
CHICAGO – During a Veterans Day protest – which focused on school closings, not the service of veterans – Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Jesse Sharkey said the union would go after the school board and there would be “no peace” in the city if the board follows through on a plan to close 100 underperforming unionized schools.
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Detroit board to pull 15 failing schools out of academic improvement program
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
DETROIT – The people who made Detroit Public Schools the “ground zero” of education are back in charge, and they’re wasting no time dismantling efforts to improve the unfortunate school district.
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Taking the “You” out of Union
By Larry Sand
Union Watch
Union political power is only as strong as its members’ willingness to give.
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Irony Alert: teachers union hosts party at National Crime Museum
By Kyle Olson
EAGnews.org
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The Illinois Education Association chose an odd location for a party in Washington, D.C. in July: the National Museum of Crime and Punishment. Read More »
Bill Ayers: ‘Dear President Obama: Congratulations!’
By Kyle Olson
EAGnews.org
CHICAGO – Among the well-wishers for President Obama’s triumphant re-election is Chicago pal and domestic terrorist-turned-professor Bill Ayers.
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Teacher union political clout will be tested with ballot proposals throughout the nation
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
MUSKEGON, Mich. – By the time the election dust clears on Wednesday morning, we should have a better idea of how much clout teachers unions have with the public these days.
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Hey, taxpayer! You have magic powers!
By Scott Reeder
Illinois Policy Institute
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Wouldn’t it be great if every time we made a bad investment decision a fairy godmother waved her magic wand and made those bad decisions disappear?
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Teacher left car running at school … with a pound of dope and $4,200 inside
By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
HERCULES, Calif. – California middle school teacher Allen Goodman has a lot of explaining to do.
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Schools close in Minnesota so teachers can gather to talk politics and bash their critics
By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Most Minnesota classrooms will stand empty for the next few days, as hundreds of thousands of state residents take to the roads and the skies to celebrate the unofficial state holiday known as “MEA weekend.”
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Watchdog scrutiny prompts Denver schools to drop teacher ‘social justice’ standard
By Kyle Olson
EAGnews.org
DENVER – Chalk one up for America and the Independence Institute.
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Union deductions leaving many Chicago teachers with tiny paychecks
By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
CHICAGO – Members of the Chicago Teachers Union have been back on the job little more than two weeks, but the effects of the union’s recent 10-day strike are still showing up in their paychecks.
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Philadelphia teacher bullies student for wearing Mitt Romney shirt
By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
PHILADELPHIA – A high school sophomore says her geometry teacher bullied her for wearing a Mitt Romney t-shirt to class last Friday.
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