Sixteen years ago, CER was paying close attention to the antics of the BLOB. Sadly, and at the expense of our kids, what's old is new, as not much has changed... An excerpt from CER's July 2000 Monthly Letter to Friends: A funny thing happened on the way to the forums… Union forums, that is.…

Despite the U.S. declaring its independence from Britain in 1776, Californians are still saddled with teacher union redcoats 240 years later.

The North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE)  is under scrutiny for whether or not it has the membership required by law to be able to deduct dues from teachers' paychecks. State law requires NCAE to have 40,000 members in order to be able to do payroll deductions. According to the News & Observer: An auditor’s…

In Wisconsin, unions are required to recertify every year under Act 10. If a union is not recertified, it means that the state is no longer required to collectively bargain with them. Last year, about half of public school teachers unions affiliated with Wisconsin's largest statewide association voted to recertify themselves for another year, according…

Surprise Surprise, unions are at it again, this time in Maryland's Anne Arundel County, pushing a work-to-rule effort that limits teachers to doing just the bare minimum of their contract, which already is narrow in scope and not in the best interest of students.

As the U.S. Supreme court is considering a case which could strike down laws forcing public employees to pay union dues, teacher unions are gearing up for combating the loss of dues that could result from Fair Share clauses being eliminated from contracts. Check out this Agency Fee Toolkit from the National Education Association (NEA)…

Since last year, the NEA lost 42,000 active members, bringing the union’s total losses among active public school employees to more than 310,000 (10.7%) over the past five years.

As the NEA and AFT gather for their major annual meetings this month, the U.S. Supreme Court could be prepared to strike down laws that force employees to pay union dues. This would be a game-changer for teachers, as they would no longer be forced to pay money to a group that has outlived its…

Teachers support school choice and want autonomy and the freedom to choose, according to a February 2015 member survey from the Association of American Educators (AAE). Sixty-eight percent of teachers support blended learning in schools. An even higher 94 percent support course choice, which allows students to enroll in individual courses that may not be offered…

EIA Intercept’s Mike Antonucci’s blog post today calls out the irony in a Washington Post letter to the editor written by Elizabeth Davis, president of the Washington Teachers Union (an AFT affiliate), and Delvone Michael, director of DC Working Families. The letter has a problem with the fact that an outside group spent more than $31,000 to…