The National Education Association named U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-Washington) the recipient of its annual Friend of Education award. Sen. Murray will be honored at the union’s Representative Assembly in Atlanta in July, assuming she can make it. The last five Friends were Paul Krugman, the 14 fugitive Wisconsin Democrats, Diane Ravitch, Linda Darling-Hammond and [...]
You have probably heard by now that U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan delivered a speech to the American Education Research Association in San Francisco and was roundly booed. All accounts agree that he was first booed as he approached the stage, indicating that it was primarily his presence that was objectionable. Since AERA invited [...]
The officers and board of the Auburn Teachers Association are taking a public beating for allowing the late Sally Jo Widmer unconstrained control of the union’s finances, which she allegedly proceeded to siphon to the tune of $808,000. They shirked their responsibilities, mostly out of deference to, and fear of, Widmer herself. But that’s only [...]
I saw this headline from the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting and did not immediately think “Big news!” but instead “Really?” It read: “Florida’s Largest Teachers Union Lost Tax-Exempt Status.” The IRS had in fact pulled the tax-exempt status of the Florida Education Association in January for failing to file a Form 990 for three [...]
My apologies to those of you who have been trying to access the EIA mobile web site only to see the same old page day after day. The problem has been solved (fingers crossed), although if you use your smart phone you will now have to go to http://www.eiaonline.com/intercepts/, which will take you directly to http://mobile.dudamobile.com/site/Intercepts. [...]
Congratulations to the AFT, which succeeded in persuading the operators of the 13 United Neighborhood Organization’s charter schools to remain neutral during its unionization campaign. About 87 percent of the 415 employees voted to have the Chicago Alliance of Charter School Teachers and Staff represent them. “This is a turning point,” said AFT president Randi [...]
