Teachers Unions

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Why Are Teachers So Averse to Returning to the Classroom?

By Dan McLaughlin April 16, 2021

The answer turns on the occupation’s culture — and its low tolerance of risk.

Teachers’ Union-led School Closures Are Disproportionately Harming Black and Hispanic Children

By Philip Klein April 12, 2021

Black and Hispanic students are more likely than whites to be in closed schools, and their learning suffers more from being remote.

No, Teacher-Training Programs Don’t Ignore Issues of Race

By Frederick M. Hess & Lindsey M. Burke April 8, 2021

The real problem is not a lack of attention paid to such issues, but how colleges of education often approach them.

Randi Weingarten Knows Nothing about Jewish Values

By David Harsanyi April 7, 2021

Weingarten combines two contemporary progressive doctrines, class and race struggle, to level her smear.

The Pernicious Myth of Shrinking Public-School Budgets

By Corey DeAngelis April 6, 2021

Public-school funding has actually been increasing for decades. The real problem is a lack of incentive for schools to meet students’ needs.

Los Angeles Teachers Petition for Free Child Care before Returning to School

By Zachary Evans April 5, 2021

The union is pushing for parents to teach from home until they're provided with subsidized child care.

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California’s Declining Public Schools

By Lindsey M. Burke April 1, 2021

The students are still at home, and the curriculum is getting woker.

Time for Americans to Take Back Power from Teachers’ Unions

By The Editors March 30, 2021

In Oakland, dozens of schools had to scrap reopening plans because teachers refused to show up to work.

We’re Not ‘Rushing’ Into Reopening Schools, Randi Weingarten

By Isaac Schorr March 24, 2021

Weingarten counsels that we not ‘rush’ into trusting the new CDC guidelines that would improve the experience of American children.