New Orleans Reporters and commentators don’t know what to make of the anger and activism of teachers who are flipping the red-state script and taking job actions, with and without their unions, to directly target governors and legislators in Oklahoma, North Carolina, West Virginia, and likely Arizona. West Virginia teachers were out nine days …
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Public Unions are Adjusting Their Strategies around Strikes and Checkoff
New Orleans Public employee unions are trying to recalibrate to find a future, and there’s hope, no matter the naysayers. Case in point of course has to be the success of the West Virginia teachers and their strike that continues to galvanize the labor movement and give courage and conviction to other unions elsewhere. Their …
Student Testing and Teacher Evaluations Both Failing our Schools
Houston The very idea of watching 34 school employees along with a former schools superintendent indicted in Atlanta for a student testing scandal should bring chills up the backs of parents, school systems, and particularly politicians all over the country. Not that this is unusual. In fact it is another all too common cheating scandal …