Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, thinks jail is apparently the way to show her displeasure with Philadelphia schools closing. What happened and what she had to say, here.

Students in two Michigan districts are not in class today because administration cancelled school, allowing teachers to go protest right-to-work legislation in Lansing.

Louisiana's story is the latest study in how far the education bureaucracy will go to protect its money and power and resist the competition that comes from school choice, even when it means forcing kids to return to schools that steal their futures.

Even when reform passes, teachers unions engage in massive resistance. Reforming public education is the civil rights issue of our era, and each year that passes without reform sacrifices thousands more children to union politics.

The NEA and the AFT spent a lot of money to ensure another four years like the last four. Is that a good thing for them? We’ll see.

As many as eight of the NEA's 11 largest state affiliates do not have the financial assets to match their liabilities and total almost $400M in combined debt. It's ironic that the internal situation of these affiliates are very similar to situations faced by state governments...

New Jersey teacher unions rank No. 1 in resources and No. 2 in "perceived influence" according to an analysis of state teacher unions.

A summary of what the Chicago Teachers Union said it "won" and "wanted to win but didn't" in its contract negotiations with CPS.

The Education Intelligence Agency provides insight on why there's still no resolution in the Chicago strike.

Lawyers for Chicago Public Schools were rebuffed today in their hopes of winning a temporary restraining order and immediately ending the teachers strike.