Teachers Unions on Townhall
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Slaves to the Government Class Thu May 24Kyle OlsonOver the past year, a lot of people have been talking about “the 1%” versus “the 99%.” But if you’re concerned about one class exploiting another for economic gain, that’s the wrong way to look at the problem. ... more
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Kate Hicks
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Kyle OlsonWhen Detroit Public Schools were assigned an emergency financial manager by the state, we thought he would have the power to turn things around, more or less, with a snap of his fingers. ... more
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Helen Whalen Cohen
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Katie Pavlich
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Kate Hicks
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Kyle OlsonIt’s been said you can judge a person’s character by the company he keeps. The same can be said of organizations. That’s why it’s so troubling that a national teachers union – the American Federation of Teachers – continues to employ such radicals. ... more
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Kyle OlsonEAGnews.org is releasing a series of stunning reports to show taxpayers exactly how our dollars are being spent in government schools. We repeatedly hear from the education establishment that school coffers are being raided, requiring teachers to be laid off and programs to be cut. We hear schools are on the brink of bankruptcy and are operating on shoe-string budgets. ... more
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Women Fired for Supporting Walker Fri Mar 30New York, NY'The unions don't respect diversity of opinion.' ... more
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It Does Matter How You Vote Fri Mar 23Mona CharenA recent weeknight found me among a group of about a dozen unhappy parents meeting with the principal of our kids' high school. The issue: An incompetent teacher who we had been promised would not be returning to the school had shown up unexpectedly, and an administrator had told the students that he might indeed be returning in September. ... more
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Kyle OlsonEvery so often, a story comes along that is so outrageous, all one can do to soothe the rage is to laugh. And shed a tear. That’s the case in Buffalo, New York. ... more
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Lurita DoanWhile Republicans focus on skewering GOP presidential candidates in primaries, Team Obama’s regulatory juggernaut continues to destroy the American way of life. Small businesses, entrepreneurs, and job creators are already groaning from the weight of the many and new regulations Obama has initiated in the past three years. ... more
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Kyle OlsonBullying has always been a problem in American government schools. Statistics say there are over 2 million bullies lurking in the hallways and on playgrounds. ... more
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Kyle OlsonThe Chicago Teachers Union has brandished its radical political stripes in recent months. It has fully embraced Occupy Chicago, protested side-by-side with Action Now (the reincarnated ACORN) and joined a coalition set to protest the upcoming NATO/G-8 meetings scheduled for May in Chicago. ... more
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Kyle OlsonThe protesters wandering around in various locations throughout Chicago are little more than warm-bodied rentals who are able to clutch a sign bearing the name of someone – in this case, Chicago Public Schools CEO J.C. Brizard – they’ve never heard of. ... more
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ACORN Reincarnated Fri Feb 24ChicagoChicago Teacher's Union + Occupy Chicago + 'Action Now' = ACORN Reincarnated. ... more
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Kyle OlsonWell, at least the kids weren’t singing – everybody now – “Mmm mmm mmm…Barack Hussein Obama.” But the latest example of Big Education fawning over Barack Obama isn’t much better. ... more
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Kyle OlsonFresh on the heels of an exclusive report detailing a 7-day Caribbean cruise that National Education Association staffers are currently enjoying, Education Action Group has learned that dozens of teachers unions around the country are running out of money. ... more
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Kyle OlsonImagine your organization is facing attacks from all sides. Imagine it’s losing members and revenue. What to do? What else to do but go down drinking? ... 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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Kyle Olson“A Tale of Two Missions” – a film by Juan Williams and Kyle Olson (and directed by Chicago-based Andrew Marcus) – tells the story of competing cultures in American education through examples from Chicago. ... more
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Kyle OlsonIt’s so reassuring to have the intellectual elites in our nation’s teachers unions, like Sandy Hughes of Tennessee, looking out for us rubes. ... more
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Kyle OlsonAccording to the propaganda of the teachers unions, these are bleak times for public education. Younger teachers are being laid off, school employees are making benefit concessions, and unions are losing bargaining privileges. ... more
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Exposing Edward Larkin Thu Nov 3Mike AdamsTenure must go. And so must Professor’s unions. If you don’t agree with me then perhaps you have yet to familiarize yourself with the case of Professor Edward Larkin. This tenured psychopath will keep his job despite exposing himself in public in front of a 17-year old girl and her mother. ... more
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Michelle MalkinThe next stage of the Aimless Occupation of America is upon us: On Wednesday, rabble-rousers in the San Francisco Bay Area will walk off jobs they don't have and encourage everyone else around the country to abandon work to protest high unemployment. ... more
