Posts tagged education
Matt Welch: L.A. Teachers Union Flunks Math, Blames Billionaires
October 29, 2026 // Faced with LAUSD's "high risk" of insolvency due to plummeting enrollment and increased hiring, the union is railing against a "fake independent analysis" and pushing for two separate wealth taxes.
LAUSD’s insane priorities: Lavish union deals, fewer school cops and bullies running wild
October 27, 2026 // Public employee unions wield enormous influence over LAUSD elections. United Teachers Los Angeles spent roughly $2.4 million each supporting Scott Schmerelson and Karla Griego, and nearly $890,000 backing Rocío Rivas. Those same board members vote on contracts with the unions that spent millions helping elect them. School police, meanwhile, are represented separately. The board approved expensive labor agreements while identifying school police as another place to cut.
Crisis team: Los Angeles schools face risk of insolvency
October 22, 2026 // Izumi, senior director of the Center for Education at the Pacific Research Institute, characterized the board’s decision on the raise as "governance malpractice." "This fiscal train wreck - you could see it coming from a mile off," Izumi told The Center Square. "One of the big reasons why L.A. is in such bad shape right now is because they agreed to a massive union contract with the teachers that they simply couldn't afford. The board did not look at its funding sources and its potential spending cuts that it would have to do in order to afford the teacher union contract that it was about to sign." Prior to those collective bargaining agreements, the Los Angeles County Office of Education had warned district leaders of escalating county supervision actions if deficit spending continued unchecked.
Commentary: Is Gov. Lamont Really Considering Defying Teacher Unions for Once?
October 20, 2026 // But the program would create competition with Connecticut’s “public schools,” the euphemism for schools controlled by teacher unions. That is, the schools subject to the state law requiring binding arbitration for teacher union contracts, the state law prohibiting municipalities from reducing school budgets, and the state law prohibiting disclosure of teacher evaluations. So Connecticut’s teacher unions, part of the Democratic Party’s army, are hysterically opposed to the program, and the governor, a Democrat, is broadcasting campaign commercials boasting of the “record funding” he has arranged for “education,” which in Connecticut is itself a euphemism for teacher unions.
What is New York hiding? How teachers unions are rigging school rankings
October 12, 2026 // Success Academy has now sued New York Education Commissioner Betty Rosa in federal court, arguing the state’s decision improperly prevents the charter network from communicating independently verified information about its students’ performance. But the controversy raises a broader question extending beyond one charter network or one magazine’s rankings: Why shouldn’t state residents have a right to see objective data about the schools their tax dollars are paying for?
Commentary Mailee Smith: Federal labor bill could force social agendas into private school contracts
October 8, 2026 // A union that organizes employees with the intent of ultimately closing their schools also is capable of organizing a private school with the intent of introducing drastic contract provisions, especially when those provisions already have been demanded in its other contracts. The FLCA would give teachers unions an additional tool in their arsenal against anything that isn’t a traditional public school.
Kentucky Students Struggle to Read and Do Math as Teachers’ Unions Sit on More Than $22 Million
October 8, 2026 // Since 2018: KEA’s workforce fell 40 percent Direct member benefits fell 32 percent Net assets climbed 198 percent, reaching $12.3 million At the same time, KEA spent 53 percent of its FY2025 budget on staff compensation and benefits. Executive Director Mary Ruble received $254,498, roughly 4.6 times the approximately $55,000 average Kentucky public-school teacher salary used in the report. KEA’s political operation tells another striking story. 96.1 percent of KEPAC political spending went to liberal issue committees or Democratic candidates and party committees. KEA lobbying disclosures also show $150,000 allocated to receptions and events for legislators in 2026 alone.
San Juan Unified School District faces unfair labor practice charge over layoffs
October 2, 2026 // The California School Employees Association filed an unfair practice charge last month, alleging that San Juan Unified School District refused to negotiate how the recent layoffs and related staffing changes would affect employees and failed to provide information needed to represent them.
California superintendent candidate calls out teachers union, says she’s a ‘real threat’ to ‘socialist agenda’
October 1, 2026 // Conservative California superintendent candidate Sonja Shaw told Fox News Digital on Tuesday that she would not back down from confronting the United Teachers Los Angeles union (UTLA), after a circulated video allegedly showed a union leader calling Shaw a "real threat" and warning that her election "would cause a huge problem for us." Shaw, the president of the Chino Valley Unified School District board, pointed to Los Angeles student achievement scores as she accused UTLA of protecting the education establishment rather than focusing on academic outcomes.
Aquarium of the Pacific Employees Form Union
September 26, 2026 // Union officials said key factors driving the unionization efforts are the growing use of generative artificial intelligence in the aquarium’s operations, wages that do not keep up with the cost of living, and a lack of professional development opportunities.