By Lisa Fleisher, The Wall Street Journal
The New York City teachers union is scheduled to endorse a mayoral candidate in two days, but City Hall’s current occupant has a warning for mayoral hopefuls: Be careful what you wish for.
The Oregonian
The Portland School Board often stays quiet during labor negotiations with the powerful Portland Association of Teachers. Not this time. Board leaders have abandoned that strategy and are communicating directly with the public about their goals for a new teacher contract.
By Andrew Stiles, National Review Online
Over the past several decades, American teachers’ salaries and benefits have increased steadily, while the academic performance of the nation’s students has stagnated.
By Dan McGowan, WPRI.com
The secretary of Rhode Island’s largest teachers union was arrested last Friday after allegedly assaulting a man at the Harborside restaurant in East Greenwich.
By Deborah Simmons,The Washington Times
Having won the 2010 mayor’s race largely with union backing, Mr. Gray and his supporters know that if he is to run again, he’s got to appease organized labor.
By Karen Matthews, timesunion.com
The New York state Education Department imposed an evaluation system on New York City teachers Saturday after the city and the teachers’ union failed to agree on a way to measure teacher effectiveness.
By Matt Roush, CBS Detroit
Controversial education reformer Michelle Rhee says there are hundreds of thousands of wonderful teachers in America who do “heroic” work.
The Seattle Times
A gay teacher challenging her firing by an Ohio Catholic school says the local union for Catholic educators has decided not to proceed with her complaint.
By Molly Bloom, StateImpact.NPR.org
A tentative contract between the Cleveland school district and its teachers union would replace the annual pay raises teachers get for accumulating years of experience or additional education with raises tied to their performance, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports.
By Dave Duffy, backwoodshome.com
This is a story that comes out of my own home town of Gold Beach, Oregon. It pits the high school band, consisting of 15 teenagers ranging in age from 15 to 18, against the powerful local teacher’s union that tried to shut the band down because their unpaid volunteer band director, who everybody agreed was doing a good job, did not possess an Oregon teaching credential.