teachers unions
Public Education
Oklahoma governor questions the legality of payroll deductions for teachers’ union dues

(The Center Square) – Gov. Kevin Stitt ordered the State Department of Education to check payroll deductions for union dues to ensure they complied with state and federal law. … Read More

August 22, 2022
Public Education
$190,000 payout for Sacramento Antifa-supporting teacher to resign has critics pointing to union clout

(The Center Square) – Reports that a California school teacher who was aligned with Antifa was paid $190,000 to resign this year are sparking outrage, leading critics to say it… Read More

August 15, 2022
Legislation
DeSantis’ message on education freedom is resonating in battleground states, teacher union poll finds

(The Center Square) – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ message of education freedom – including empowering parents, banning “woke” curriculum, and ensuring education transparency – are all policies that are resonating… Read More

July 19, 2022
Public Education
Education doesn’t appear a priority for the nation’s largest teacher union

(The Sentinel) – Last year the top priority of the National Education Association — the nation’s largest teacher’s union — appeared to be implementing the ideas behind the controversial… Read More

July 18, 2022
Public Education
Critics blast Biden plan for 250,000 tutors to correct learning losses that he and supporters helped cause

President Biden has promised to fix learning losses from the COVID-19 pandemic, though critics argue his administration created the gap to begin with.  Pandemic learning losses prompted the… Read More

July 11, 2022
Opinion, Public Education
Teachers’ union president calls for members to ‘fight’ for abortion and LGBT agenda, against prayer in schools and gun rights for Americans

With all the sophistication and pep of a high school graduation speech, the president of the nation’s largest teachers’ union called on her gathered members “to build our power”… Read More

July 6, 2022
Public Education
Leaked social media posts show how Chicago Teachers Union leaders smuggled woke ideology into school lessons

Social media posts by Chicago Teachers Union members and executives describe how they covertly insert far-left woke indoctrination into their lessons.   The alarming Facebook posts in… Read More

June 23, 2022
Public Education
Gubernatorial candidate Kleefisch slams Evers following emails showing union influence on school reopenings

(The Center Square) – There are new questions about who is running public schools in Wisconsin following the release of emails between Gov. Tony Evers and the state’s largest teachers’… Read More

June 16, 2022
Public Education
CDC documents show it followed union wishes, not science, in its COVID-19 masking policies

Coordination between the CDC and labor unions, including teachers’ unions, over pandemic policy guidance was deeper than originally thought.  According to an internal calendar provided to Fox News Digital… Read More

June 9, 2022
Public Education
Teachers union urges Washington Supreme Court to uphold capital gains tax

(The Center Square) – The Washington Education Association has filed a brief with the state Supreme Court that calls for opening the door to the imposition of… Read More

May 12, 2022
Public Education
Head of teachers’ union accuses Republicans of ‘brutalizing’ public school proponents and ‘terrorizing gay families’

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten made a number of accusations about Republicans over the weekend in a segment about education issues on MSNBC. Talking… Read More

April 27, 2022
Public Education
GOP leaders look to squash union’s ‘burdensome’ ways in North Carolina school-choice case

(The Center Square) – Republicans in the General Assembly want the North Carolina Court of Appeals to halt proceedings in a lower court challenge to the Opportunity Scholarship Program until… Read More

March 21, 2022
Public Education
Op-Ed: Mask mandate is gone for most Illinois schools, but teachers unions still demand more power over kids, parents

(The Center Square) – Illinois’ largest teachers unions in the past two pandemic years have shown their priority is power, not students’ welfare or parents’ rights. In 2020-2021, the Chicago… Read More

March 10, 2022
Public Education
Charter school teacher gets refund from teachers union that seized dues

(The Center Square) – A California union has backed down after facing a potential legal action threatened by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation on behalf of a… Read More

March 4, 2022
Public Education
Teachers unions spent big to get mandates and closures in Illinois

(Brett Rowland | The Center Square) – Teacher unions have used campaign spending, political organization and collective bargaining power to influence policy decisions during the pandemic. Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker and… Read More

February 14, 2022
Legislation, Public Education
Critics say Twitter suspension is latest attempt by teachers union to silence conservative voices

A conservative education news and policy group was hit with a Twitter suspension last week after a teachers union board member reported the account. Critics say it’s one… Read More

February 11, 2022
Public Education
Parents sue Chicago Teachers Union over school closures, ‘illegal strike’

(Dan McCaleb | The Center Square) – Seven parents of Chicago Public Schools students are suing the district’s teachers union, calling this week’s closure of schools over union claims they were… Read More

January 10, 2022
Public Education
91% of Chicago Teachers Union members plan on pushing for remote learning after winter break

The Chicago Teachers Union is expected to vote on Tuesday about whether to defy orders from Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to return to in-person instruction. The union urged… Read More

January 3, 2022
Public Education
Subjects of IEA video call it ‘propaganda,’ say teachers unions upset parents are standing up

(Greg Bishop | The Center Square) – A political video published by the Illinois Education Association is being criticized as propaganda by the targets of the production. The six-minute narrated… Read More

December 21, 2021
Public Education
Alarming trend of teachers’ unions donating to dark money groups continues

The 2022 midterm elections are less than a year away, and teachers’ unions are already posturing to influence the outcomes. According to new financial disclosures… Read More

December 9, 2021