As Schools Reopen, Chicago Will Hire 2,000 Employees to Assist Students Whose Teachers Stay Home
Surprise: The teachers union opposes this plan.
Surprise: The teachers union opposes this plan.
No one has fought harder to keep kids out of the classroom than teachers unions.
"If you look at the data, the spread among children and from children is not very big at all."
"Keeping kids out of the classroom will make recovering from the pandemic harder in the long term."
Just 0.18 percent of randomly tested teachers and students have been positive for COVID-19. So why the hell would you close the schools?
Families are leaving traditional schools in record numbers for pods, homeschooling, charters, and more.
"No one should return to in person instruction until there is a widely available scientifically proven vaccine or highly effective treatment."
Americans are being forced to confront the downsides of powerful organized labor in an already miserable year.
Kids are beside the point when government officials and union leaders keep them waiting on labor negotiations that serve everybody but students and their families.
New data suggest that school districts in states with stronger teachers unions are significantly less likely to reopen in person this fall.
As families flock to virtual charter schools and "pandemic pods," California blocks the money from following the child.
What does this have to do with safely educating kids in the midst of a pandemic? Not much.
Hold agencies and regulators accountable for outcomes, not compliance.
Despite costing less to educate, Boston's charter students significantly outperform their peers in both reading and math. So why is Warren still opposed?
"You don't like the building? You think it's old and decaying? Then get out there and push to get a new one," she said.
Less pandering to education unions; more choices for parents.
More than 300,000 students in Chicago were out of school on Friday as the teachers strike continued.
Democrats repudiate their own recent past and seek to restrict educational choices for poorer kids.
Union leaders made charters a major point of contention during the January protests.
The district's budget is broken, and the latest deal with the unions will make it worse.
That's on top of massive long-term debts for retiree health care benefits.
They demanded higher salaries. The real problem: A disconnect between what teachers see in their paychecks and what employers are actually paying them.
The LAUSD has seen a 16 percent jump in administrative staffers since 2004-and per pupil spending has been marching steadily upwards.
They were offered 3 percent, but wanted 6.5. The district probably can't afford that.
One union official told The Sacramento Bee that "education should not be a competitive endeavor." Because competition never improved anything, right?
Seeing your kids held hostage in a battle between government factions is a great incentive to look for alternatives.
Teachers have shut down schools across the state, allegedly to protest pension changes. But those pension reforms are pretty mild.
The Supreme Court hears a case that might crush government unions. The unions are upset. Stossel debates a union official.
Would extend "right to work" principles to government employment.
Success Academy's Eva Moskowitz has demonstrated that more choice in education yields incredible outcomes.
It's how their rules were made to work.
Tell it to all the minority children in charter schools across the country.
Sydney Chaffee was the first charter school teacher to win the national honor.
Choice advocates win in school board race in second largest district in country.
School board election winner wants to see lessons of successful charters replicated within district.
Public education existed well before 1980, but an unpopular President Carter wanted the nation's largest union on his side before an election.
Trump is definitely a bully, but are things really that bad in American schools?
Clinton and Co. blame Trump from a rise in bullying that may not even be happening.
Capital Prep's operator doesn't like teachers unions, so teachers don't like him.
Three judges dissent from 4-3 decision to let teacher's appeal victory stand; "Vergara and her fellow plaintiffs raise profound questions with implications for millions of students across California. They deserve an answer from this court," says Judge Cuellar.
Teachers unions want to sabotage charters, even though they help poor black kids.
Vergara victory overturned, more or less on grounds that crummy teaching probably harms most California students equally.
Flint debate reveals a party mired in retrograde '70s-era trade-union liberalism
School choice frees teachers to enchant their students.
Why all kids deserve school choice.
SCOTUS weighs stare decisis in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association.
The real threat to union power is failure to serve.