By Mike Antonucci
EIAonline
EAST GREENWICH, R.I. – NEA Rhode Island secretary Louis Rainone submitted his resignation after being charged with assault and disorderly conduct on Friday, June 7.
Read More »
EAGnews.org powered by Education Action Group Foundation, Inc.
Posts Tagged ‘National Education Association’
Rhode Island teacher union leader arrested for assaulting a man in a restaurant
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
EAST GREENWICH, R.I. – Organized labor leaders would like to shed their reputation for thuggish behavior and become known as respectable professionals.
Read More »
Duncan defies Rhode Island unions by declaring his support for Deborah Gist
By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Everyone wants Rhode Island Education Commissioner Deborah Gist to stay for another three years.
Read More »
Harkin’s revamp of “No Child Left Behind” is a parting gift to his teacher union friends
By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Retiring U.S. Senator Tom Harkin already has an “A” rating from the National Education Association, but if his latest legislative proposal becomes law, the Iowa Democrat will secure a place in the teacher unions’ “Hall of Fame.”
Read More »
Hawaii professors, NEA trading barbs in the wake of their nasty breakup
By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
HONALULU, Hawaii – The breakup between the University of Hawaii’s faculty union and the National Education Association is getting nasty.
Read More »
NEA can’t escape responsibility for insurance venture that allegedly cheated schools out of millions
By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
INDIANAPOLIS – In state after state, public school officials are learning it’s not wise to purchase employee insurance coverage from union-affiliated insurance companies.
Read More »
Anti-bullying union bullies manage to bully their way to positions of power
By Kyle Olson
EAGnews.org
CHICAGO – Teachers unions say they’re passionate about stamping out bullying in schools.
Read More »
Peer bullying may have caused junior high student’s campus suicide
By Ashleigh Costello
EAGnews.org
MARION, Ind. – Police are investigating a student’s tragic on-campus suicide at McCulloch Junior High School.
Read More »
‘1 percent’ union bosses have little financial solidarity with everyday union members
By Kyle Olson
EAGnews.org
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Union bosses talk a good “wealth redistribution” game, but they don’t practice what they preach.
Read More »
Stealing by stalling: dues transmittal delays can cover up theft
By Mike Antonucci
EIAonline
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Over the past 10 years we have had a string of local teacher union officers committing major theft of dues money: Pat Tornillo in Miami, Barbara Bullock in Washington DC, Pat Santeramo in Broward County, and several others.
Read More »
Teachers in Kansas district working through roadblocks to dump their NEA affiliation
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
DEERFIELD, Kansas – It’s easy for school employees to join a labor union.
Read More »
Time to make teaching a real profession
By Carl Olson
Heartlander
CHICAGO – Teachers have somehow gotten themselves exempt from public accountability as a profession, such as the independent requirements doctors, nurses, accountants, and others must meet.
Read More »
NEA comes to the aid of Obama’s new political action organization
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s always fun to listen to teachers union officials say we need to keep public education out of politics, then watch them turn around and donate millions of dollars to political candidates, almost all of them Democrats.
Read More »
Republican-led Senate the only thing keeping NH tuition scholarship program alive
By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
CONCORD, N.H. – Teacher union leaders and their political surrogates in the New Hampshire legislature are trying to drum up public support for a repeal of the state’s new school tuition scholarship program that took effect earlier this year.
Read More »
Superintendent’s plan for removing ineffective teachers gets cool reception
By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
BURLINGTON, Vt. – A Vermont school superintendent is pressing state lawmakers for legislation that would make it easier to remove incompetent or ineffective teachers from the classroom.
Read More »
Chavous: Congress is getting it wrong on parental school choice
From news service reports
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Kevin P. Chavous, executive council for the American Federation for Children, explains how union politics and and misinformation is playing into the school choice debate in Congress.
Read More »
NRA releases a report calling for properly trained armed school personnel
By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A task force assembled by the National Rifle Association released a new report Tuesday that calls for allowing school employees with proper training to carry weapons to school to protect students.
Read More »
Montana State professors voting on whether to dump their union
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
BOZEMAN, Montana – For years the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers targeted faculty members at Montana State University for membership.
Read More »
National Education Association’s legacy: $310 million in direct campaign spending since 2000
By Mike Antonucci
EIAonline
WASHINGTON, D.C. – I was recently provided with a partial summary of the ballot initiative spending of the National Education Association and its state affiliates over the last five years.
Read More »
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.
Read More »