While I run a non-profit, I feel very much like a small business owner. I’ve got to meet a payroll. I’ve got to be sure we are delivering the highest quality product. I’ve got to make sure we’re getting the
Teacher union leaders have been known to bark back when their strongest job protection – tenure – is referred to as a job for life. Typical rebuttals include: “It’s a necessary protection from overzealous administrators,” or “it’s critical to maintain
Americans are finally accepting the fact that the nation’s public education system is deeply flawed. And a new poll reveals that the public is ready to embrace a logical compromise that would effectively address the problem – do away with
During this past week, with the news so focused on the Congressional tax debate and the “wikileaks” controversy, you may have missed reports of a very impressive school choice victory. The parents of students at McKinley Elementary School in Compton,
The disturbing protests that are spreading across Europe are setting the table for similar showdowns across America in the coming months and years. Public employee unions and their socialist allies will take to the streets of Washington, D.C. and state
A new human rights curriculum that was recently introduced to middle schools and high schools all across New York is a disservice to students because it wastes precious instruction time which would be more wisely spent on academic fundamentals. Last
There’s a weird thing happening in public education. Hardcore unions are attempting to rebrand themselves as “professional organizations.” In fact, the American Federation of Teachers bills itself as “A union of professionals.” Both the AFT and the larger National Education
It’s not every day you hear a governor laying the smack down on a group of thugs like the New Jersey Education Association, but that’s precisely what Gov. Chris Christie did before a stuffy crowd of education reformers recently. Christie
When EAGtv‘s reporting team got back from covering a school choice rally in Chicago, they mentioned how impressed they were by one of the event’s speakers – a Father Michael Somethingorother. They appreciated Father Michael’s no-holds-barred support for school choice,
Chicago parents are fed up with the shoddy education many of their kids are receiving in Chicago Public Schools and they’re no longer being silent. As a part of the DoneWaiting.org coalition – a collection of hundreds of organizations that
Former presidential advisor and best-selling author Dick Morris believes that newly elected Republican legislators in Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania and other states will explore school choice options to help remedy huge budget deficits. [youtube EFdQt8ICEQc] In an interview with EAGtv, Morris
The Illinois Education Association is reeling from a very bad 2009-2010 fiscal year, caused in no small part by the union’s exorbitant expenditures on parties, meetings and salaries, Education Action Group recently found. In its annual LM-2 report, on file
Dick Morris has picked up on a theme Education Action Group has been trumpeting for months: public employee union contracts, including school employee contracts, are unsustainable and have several states on the verge of fiscal collapse. Recently on Fox News,
With most of the media focusing their 2010 election coverage on whether or not Republicans will reclaim one or both houses of Congress, the 37 states that are about to elect (or re-elect) a governor get lost in the shuffle.
Only at National Public Radio would an honest, human opinion get you fired. The elites at NPR just couldn’t live with a commoner such as Juan Williams…he might be too low brow for their DC cocktail parties. Despite my various
After the dust settles from the next Tuesday’s elections, pay close attention to Michigan. The “Great Lakes State” is about to undergo an extreme makeover from a burned-out “Blue State” to a reborn “Red State.” Democrats have been the dominant
As “Waiting for ‘Superman’” so eloquently points out, the industrial assembly-line model of America’s public schools, created decades ago, isn’t working. In fact, it’s setting us further and further behind our global competitors. Today, it is essential that our children
The Education Action Group believes that the New York City teachers union’s impending lawsuit over the release of teacher ratings exposes its true motivation to protect sub-par teachers and preserve the failing system. New York education officials’ made the bold
The New York Times described this movie as presenting “a blood-curdling, nightmarish picture of monstrous disorder in a public school.” Variety said the film displays a moral rage at the “pattern of society acceptance of things as they are because
The brand-spanking new Robert F. Kennedy Community School opened in Los Angeles recently and carried a price tag of $578 million, making it the most expensive public school ever. The reason it cost so much? Well, Donald Trump, of course!
President Obama’s baseless attack on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce underscores the routine hyper-partisan attacks his administration has become known for. Obama’s allegation was that the Chamber has been using money from foreign members to influence this election. Karl Rove,
It should come as no surprise that unions are spending big bucks to keep their Democratic friends in power. And with good reason: Does anyone honestly believe with fiscal conservatives in control of Congress, legislation like last summer’s $10 billion
The irony would be humorous if it weren’t so sad: The United Federation of Teachers, the New York City branch of the American Federation of Teachers, which pushed ardently for ObamaCare has now requested – and received – a waiver
This guy puts on a good game until he’s asked by EAGtv: “Did you see the movie?” The movie, of course, is “Waiting for ‘Superman,’” the new documentary on public education. Then his critique is as hollow as his pecs!
How do you keep the Van Joneses and other radicals from going off the deep end and spouting Marxist propaganda for national TV cameras? By using the World’s Largest Teleprompter. [youtube hS8icxr424k nolink] Every speaker used this from the podium,
