Teachers Unions

Mary Stuart Bile, er Guile, er Gile Schooled…

May 19, 2013

…by none other than Kate Baker, the extraordinary young woman who is the Executive Director of the Network for Education Opportunity. I swear, for the life of me I do not understand why Dems and Progressives are always ready to throw poor and disadvantaged children under the government school bus.

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This Week On GrokTALK! – the after edition

April 20, 2013

While creating today’s GrokTALK! podcast, we had Dean Dr. Julianne Cooper from Liberty Harbor Academy and Josh Youseff who ran for the NH State Senate this last cycle on to talk about education. We ended up talking on a number of issues concerning education and during that discussion, I remembered this post from 2009 about [ Read more ]

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NH State Senator Peggy Gilmour – I demand who should control education dollars

April 19, 2013

And that would not be parents – From today’s Concord Patch: ‘Sen. Peggy Gilmour, D-Hollis, had urged her colleagues to overturn a committee recommendation and then pass the repeal bill. In a statement, she said, “The program has no accountability of public money. It allows private, non-profit corporations to determine where public education dollars are [ Read more ]

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Lying to Parents to have “power” over the child / Student? Head Teacher in Chicago is “all in” on this tactic

March 27, 2013

Sickening.  And make no mistake, if it is happening there, it is happening in your child’s school too.  Go ahead, watch the video and then ask yourself “Can I really trust my child’s teacher?” After all Karen Lewis is the head of the teachers union in Chicago – this is just a tactic of Chicago [ Read more ]

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“I despise bullies……wealthy officials who exercise school choice for their own families while denying it to others less financially fortunate”

March 11, 2013

This column came to my attention from Ann Marie Bannfield who as become one of the most knowledgeable and articulate defenders of the need for Educational Freedom, for local control,  and an ardent foe of lowered educational/academic standards that have swept our country.  Thus, when she emailed out a link to this Op-Ed, I read [ Read more ]

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How Teachers Unions Hurt Schools

February 11, 2013

Prager Universitie’s latest great video is “How Teachers Unions Hurt Schools.” I’m in a hurry so  I’ll just snag some context from Breitbart for now: ” ‘How Teachers Unions Hurt Schools is narrated by Stanford Professor Terry Moe.   Moe explains how the Obama administration’s admissions that the education system is broken contradict their pro-union stance. “Union [ Read more ]

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Data Point – So, are Americans grooving on Public Education Schools

June 21, 2012

No, Teachers’ unions, you are not the “be all end all” you might think that you are.  In fact, not even close.  Gallup is saying that the jig is up – and getting worse.  I’m afraid that your claims and rhetoric about the mission of public education, and that your emphasis that the ONLY way [ Read more ]

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Wisconsin Gold

February 24, 2011

In just a few days the unions and democrats gathering in Wisconsin have provided us with a treasure trove. They have bussed in AstroTurf with connections to the White House, backing the big business unions, bearing more Hitler signs in a few miles than since Hilter was alive.

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