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Why teachers don't teach?
Teachers' unions are now being criticized for being more concerned about bureaucracy and protection than they are about teaching and quality education.
Tags: education; teachers; unions; NEA; teachers' unions; labor
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Blaming Teachers
Getting rid of underqualified teachers is a popular idea but it might be more expensive and difficult to do than most reformers are willing to admit.
Tags: education; teachers; teacher quality; NEA
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Unions Pull Out Stops for Election; NEA, AFT, Dig Down to Details in Effort to Mobilize Members; Complaints Point Up 'Murky' Areas in Union Activism
These three stories investigate the involvement of teachers' unions in political campaigns during the election 2000 cycle. Archer found that teachers' unions are turning more and more to unrestricted forms of campaign spending, such as soft-money. The stories give a good description of the kind of political power teachers' unions wield
Tags: teachers' unions; politics; campaign spending; power
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Teachers challenging union leaders over pensions
The Journal-Bulletin investigates a mini-revolt within the ranks of the National Education Association/Rhode Island. The investigation reveals how legislators and union leaders manipulated the system to get union employees publicly-subsidezed state pensions; how NEA leaders lied to their members; how NEA officials had written off as "bad debt" thousands of dollars owed by its former president; how the NEA's former president and current executive director had committed fraud; and how the current president maneuvered to pad his state pension. (Feb. 12, 28, March 8, 14, 18, April 2, 30, May 18, 1995)
Tags: Education; teacher unions; National Education Association; NEA
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Village Voice (New York) reports that National Endowment for the Arts chair John Frohnmayer was forced to resign not only because of GOP presidential hopeful Pat Buchanan's attacks on George Bush, but also as a result of an orchestrated campaign by the office of Dan Quayle and White House chief of staff John Sununu; gives an account of the chair's embattled and short tenure at the NEA, March 10, 1992.
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