National Education Association on Townhall
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Kyle OlsonEducation turned into a key issue in Wednesday’s first presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney. ... more
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Kyle OlsonThe educational establishment is ramping up its attack of “Won’t Back Down,” a fictional movie of a parent and teacher teaming up to take over a failing school through a “parent trigger” law. ... more
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Charlotte HaysWhen the National Education Association—the nation’s largest teachers’ union—addresses the problem of high school dropout rates, you can bet your bottom dollar that their proposals will be more beneficial to the powerful union than to the dropouts. ... more
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Stay in School or We'll Make You Sun Jan 29Steve ChapmanMany teenage kids regard school as the functional equivalent of prison -- where they are forced to endure oppressive rules, bad food and unpleasant company. For them, Barack Obama has a message: There will be no parole. ... more
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Senators announce agreement on education law Mon Oct 17AP News
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Kyle OlsonThe National Education Association, the nation’s largest labor union, is rolling out its new $350,000 television ad campaign to generate support for President Obama’s American Jobs Act. Thirty billion of Obama’s $450 billion jobs bill has been designated to supposedly save 285,000 teaching jobs. ... more
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Kyle OlsonWhen President Obama once again addresses public school students this week, he will likely hit all the poll-tested phrases (“The future of America depends on you”) and other warmed-over pablum (“There is no excuse for not trying”) which will leave the kids reaching for their contraband ear buds. ... more
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Kyle OlsonAs President Obama makes his way around the country to gin up support for his latest stimulus efforts, his underlings can’t seem to stay on the same page. ... more
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Kyle OlsonRidiculously false choices and rhetoric ruled the evening when the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers hosted a closed-media conference call with Vice President Joe Biden to inform their members about the latest government school and teachers’ union bailout. ... more
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Kyle OlsonFirst there was the stimulus. The $787 billion monstrosity was critical to Big Labor because it would save public school teaching jobs, among other unionized positions. ... more
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Kyle OlsonWe’ve got a lot of great public school teachers. But it’s a shame that they are being represented by such a self-serving, hyperpartisan group of activists. ... more
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Lipstick on a Union Pig Thu Jul 21Kyle OlsonFor some strange reason, some union activists prefer their organizations be referred to as “associations,” as opposed to unions. That's odd, given that the National Education Association has grabbed the union mantle with both hands, and the American Federation of Teachers adopted the slogan "A union of professionals." ... more
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Kyle OlsonOne Michigan teacher has discovered that being a Michigan Education Association member is like staying at the Hotel California: You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave. ... more
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Kyle OlsonAt its recent convention, National Education Association Vice President Lily Eskelsen publicly thanked students for raising funds for the union political action committee, known as the NEA Fund for Children and Public Education. ... more
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John RansomWelcome to the next education "crisis" in America, kids. And the message will be brought to you by Obama for only $10 per union teacher. ... more
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Defacing the White House, America Sun Jul 3Mark BaisleySeveral months after the Bill Clinton staff moved out of the West Wing in 2001, George W. Bush’s press secretary Ari Fleischer confirmed to the Washington Post that the outgoing liberals had trashed the place. ... more
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Kyle OlsonThe “battle” may be over, but the teacher unions’ desire to co-opt (and ultimately destroy) charter schools remains. ... more
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Kyle OlsonWe continue to hear the rhetoric from teachers unions and others in the education establishment that we need to “invest” more in America’s public schools. ... more
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Scott Walker Is Just Getting Started Thu Apr 21Kyle OlsonWhen Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker curtailed collective bargaining privileges for public sector workers (formerly known as public servants), it resulted in all-out political war in Madison. Walker won the showdown, and now the state can get its financial house in order. ... more
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Ann CoulterWhen Wisconsin Democrats fled the state in order to avoid voting on splendiferous public sector union contracts, did they happen to notice that the rest of the country is in the midst of a massive recession? ... more
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Ross MackenzieIt was not the dread Chamber of Commerce (to hear President Obama tell it), but a union... ... more
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'Superman's' Frankenstein Comes To Life Sun Mar 13Kyle OlsonLast year, even as education reformers all across the country were turning cartwheels in celebration of Davis Guggenheim’s "Waiting for 'Superman,'" I remained skeptical. ... more
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Chuck NorrisWhy should liberals want to change the public educational system when it is turning out the product they have been striving for years to produce? ... more
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Michelle MalkinIf public school teachers spent more time teaching in classrooms and less time community-organizing in political war rooms, maybe taxpayers wouldn't feel as ripped off as they do. ... more
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Indiana Education Reformers Take Action Thu Feb 24Kyle OlsonWhile all eyes are on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and his efforts to reform his state’s spending, Indiana is leading the way with broad-based education reforms. ... more
