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Nat'l Education Association's summer reading selections aim to indoctrinate kids, not educate
Why did the National Education Association, the country’s largest teachers union, put porn on its recommended-reading list?
Moms for Liberty targets school board races, setting up showdowns with activists, teachers unions
The group's co-founder, Tiffany Justice, said during its annual summit over the weekend in Philadelphia that Moms for Liberty will use its political action committee next year to engage in school board...
Success Academy smashes Regents AND lefty lies on standardized testing
Low-income minority middle schoolers at a charter network aced New York state Regents exams meant for high schoolers.
Unions still trap teachers — 5 years after Supremes said they can't
All public-sector employees have a constitutionally guaranteed right to opt out of the union and stop paying dues; no one should be forced to remain through complicated rules designed to...
When will America put out the three-alarm fire in its public schools?
The latest round of test scores from the NAEP shows achievement in reading and math among 13-year-olds tested last year has fallen off a cliff.
Adams' union negotiation skills stink — you pick up the tab
Mayor Eric Adams’ union-contract strategy is becoming all-too-clear: Agree to most or all of what the labor bosses demand — and get nothing whatsoever back in return.
Even as our students fail, NYC teachers rewarded with generous contract
In a time of fiscal constraints and terrible test results, we should have gotten a more measured contract that kept in mind students — the ultimate reason why our schools...
AFT boss questioned school reopening plan in chummy exchange with CDC chief: texts
The chummy back and forth between Weingarten and Walensky was revealed in a series of text messages between the two which the CDC handed over to the Fairfax County Parents...
Don (Rickles) Trump, Biden’s primary-elex woes and other commentary
The most recent CNN poll shows Robert F. Kennedy Jr. winning one in five voters, author Marianne Williamson at 8% and another 8% of Democrats supporting "someone else" in the...
Outgoing CDC chief to testify before House COVID panel over who pushed mandates
Walensky will testify about the influence nongovernmental groups such as teachers unions had over public health mandates during the outbreak.
The week in whoppers: Biden's blame game, Mulgrew's charter bull and more
Joe Biden in 2020 said as president, he would "choose to unite rather than divide."
Teachers federation president hit with subpoena threat by House COVID subcommittee
The AFT president Randi Weingarten failed to disclose communications between the teachers’ union and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on reopening schools in early 2021.
House COVID panel invites departing CDC Director Rochelle Walensky to testify
“Impending departure from federal service does not protect you from accountability,” the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic wrote in a Twitter post on Monday, announcing Walensky’s invitation to sit...
Democrats to parents everywhere: Your kids belong to US, not you!
Blue-state progs keep screaming: Your kids don’t belong to you! Tommy Hoyt, a Democratic New Hampshire state legislator, is just the latest example.
New Hampshire Democrat tells parent to ‘shut up’ about parents' bill of rights
"Do your children a favor, let the teachers teach, and shut up," Hoyt wrote, saying later he "probably could have used better words."
Teachers union goes AWOL in fight to keep migrant shelters out of schools
Mayor Eric Adams has now let public-school gyms and libraries warehouse newly arrived migrants.
Tax-take collapse, Alvin Bragg’s on trial, too and other commentary
“New York’s latest tax collection data indicate New York’s just-passed state budget was based on rosy assumptions about income tax receipts that are not materializing,” fumes the Empire Center’s Ken...
AFT president scores $15K annual teacher's pension — despite teaching for only a few years
American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten has accrued a potential six-figure, taxpayer-funded New York City pension during her more than a decade as head of the teachers union’s local...
Queens charter school parents rap teachers' union for blocking space deal
Parents of a Queens charter school are urging a judge to allow them to be heard in a lawsuit where the teachers' union is trying to block their kids from...
Randi Weingarten fact-checked by Twitter after claiming she tried to reopen schools during COVID
Weingarten’s assertion that she fought to reopen schools beginning in May of 2020 was quickly called out by Twitter users, alleging that “Weingarten is misrepresenting her prior positions.”