Education Action Group

RACINE, Wis. – Former Racine Unified school district board member Brian Deyhas had his fair share of run-ins with the district’s teachers union. He proposed Act 10-style cuts when he served on the board between 2005 and 2008. More recently, he pressed school officials

LANSING, Mich. — The nation’s teacher unions have been warning Americans that education reform is really a war against the middle class. The unions say powerful corporations are behind the movement to hold public schools accountable for how much students

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The memo has gone out, the date has been saved. This coming Tuesday, radicals of all stripes will descend upon the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington D.C. to rally in support of convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. Organizers are hoping to

RACINE – Wisconsin’s radical left-wing teachers are at it again. And this time, they’ve incited their students to draw up a “Student Bill of Rights” and encouraged them to pack recent school board meetings in Racine and Milwaukee to insist that school officials adopt the

When Congress passed the “edujobs” stimulus in the summer of 2010, the nation’s teacher union leaders must have made champagne toasts to celebrate their clever way of preserving union jobs while so many public schools were facing budget problems. Union leaders figured

NEW YORK – What are parents to do when their child comes home from school with stories about “this creepy guy in my class” – and it turns out to be the teacher? That’s a very real concern for parents

RAMSEY, N.J. – In February, Ramsey (New Jersey) school board members did something so outrageous, so beyond the bounds of decency and sacred tradition that the local teachers’ union president says it has poisoned relations between the district and union “for decades

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Allen Osborn is a special education teacher at the Riverside Unified School District in California, where he teaches severely handicapped students in kindergarten through third grade. It’s a job he loves, and he hasn’t looked back since leaving the business world six years

MILWAUKEE – The average Milwaukee Public Schools teacher was absent from the classroom over 9 percent of the time during the 2010-11 school year. The district’s 5,241 teachers took a whopping 92,691 days off last year – in the form of sick days,

DETROIT – According to students at Detroit Public Schools’ Frederick Douglass Academy, it’s become commonplace for large numbers of teachers to be absent at the same time, resulting in a teacher shortage. When that occurs, students are forced to spend their

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A day after hosting a pro-education reform rally at the state capitol, the president of the Connecticut Parents Union was fired from her job as a workshop presenter with New Haven Public Schools’ Head Start Program. CTPU President Gwen

MADISON – Wisconsin’s public sector unions and their allies are hailing a recent court decision on Act 10 as a victory heading into the summer recall season. But the most important part of the new law – that collective bargaining is not a legal right -survived the

Here’s a story straight out of the “strange but true” file: The Las Vegas teachers’ union is upset with an arbitrator’s decision that will save the jobs of 134 teachers. Last week, an arbitrator ruled that under state law, members of the Clark

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – For the first time ever, Tennessee is basing a portion of a teacher’s evaluation on student test data. Test scores will be combined with a principal’s classroom observations to create an overall score for teachers, ranging from 1 (significantly

BOISE, Idaho – Millions of voters will go to the polls this year to choose between a more performance-based, accountable approach to public education, and the failed system supported by Big Labor. In Michigan, North Dakota and Idaho, state teachers unions are working to convince

An open records request filed by Milwaukee conservative radio personality Mark Belling has revealed that freedom of speech in some public schools is reserved for those who agree with the unions. According to information obtained by Belling, a custodian working for a private contractor

We’d always heard they did things a little differently in Louisiana, and now we’re sure of it. The school boards of three Louisiana school districts – East Baton Rouge, St. Martin and Vermilion – voted to cancel classes one day last week so their unionized teachers

JACKSONVILLE, Ill. – Officials in Jacksonville School District 117 might be a little too eager to see Morgan County voters approve the one-cent sales tax increase next Tuesday. Dennis Collins serves as the chairman for Morgan County Citizens Acting for

Reports indicate TFA teachers are being harassed by Seattle Education Association sympathizers SEATTLE – Last year, the Washington Education Association “invested” $11,500 in two candidates who were successfully elected to the Seattle school board. It appears that investment is already paying dividends for the