Category: teacher unions

Michael Zwaagstra: The School You Attend Impacts You for a Lifetime

Commentary As the school year winds down, many high school graduates are looking forward to their first year of post-secondary education in the fall. Everyone knows that some universities are better than others. That’s why students compete fiercely to get admitted to top-tier universities. A degree from a prestigious institution opens far more doors than…


Another COVID Fail: School Budget Cliffs With Gaping Holes

New York City’s school system went on a spending spree during the pandemic, thanks to the $7.5 billion in federal money it received as part of a $189 billion national relief package aimed at addressing education problems incurred by lockdowns and school closures. Although the funds were nonrecurring, the nation’s largest school district used some of…


Parent Rights Group Fights Critical Race Theory with Anti-Union Campaign

To allow schools to be free of Critical Race Theory (CRT) parents must break the unions, parental rights activists say. This school year, Moms for Liberty leaders Tiffany Justice and Tina Descovich have mounted a nationwide campaign to end union control of schools. “Let’s start the new school year right—by ending the reign of the…


Children Are Being Sexualized and Harmed for Political Agendas of Unions: Rebecca Friedrichs

Children are being inundated with sexual material, and are being pressured to accept a new Marxist view of history and race being taught in schools. This is part of a system being pushed by teacher unions, according to Rebecca Friedrichs, founder of For Kids and Country and author of “Standing Up to Goliath.” During her…


Teacher Unions Used Pandemic to Funnel Millions to Divisive Political Groups: Government Accountability Institute

America’s largest teacher unions have funneled millions of dollars to divisive political movements as well as mostly Democratic political candidates, using the pandemic and their political influence to advance policies outside of education—including election reform and COVID-19 policy. This was among several findings in a new investigation into America’s two largest teacher unions focusing on how…


School Daze

Commentary For the third straight day last week, the Chicago Teachers Union canceled classes, choosing to return to virtual learning and citing dangers from the Omicron variant as their excuse. To many, this is seen as nothing more than a teachers’ strike and power grab executed by a union that historically supports Democrat politicians. Democrats…


Teachers Unions Function Like Cartels With Institutional Corruption: Bob Bowden

As students are starting to return to school in the wake of the pandemic, teacher unions have played a big part in the return to normalcy. But some teacher unions have politicized the return and used their positions to push for policies in support of issues like critical race theory, defunding the police, and Medicare…