Posts Tagged ‘teachers unions’

Commentary: Louisiana Education Budget Cuts Highlights Need for Vouchers

Commentary: Louisiana Education Budget Cuts Highlights Need for Vouchers

Voucher programs not only provide students with access to better schools of their choosing, but cost as low as a quarter per student compared to public schools.

Commentary: New Jersey’s Christie Provides Template for Reducing State Expenditures

Given our state’s looming budget deficit budget deficit and recent blows to the oil and shipping industries, Louisiana should take into consideration New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s proposed agenda to rein in superfluous state spending. Gov. Christie has been anathema to unions throughout the state of New Jersey due to his refusal to genuflect to [...]

Commentary: Teachers’ Union Rhetoric Distorts Benefits of New Education Law

“The LTF is insinuating that [HB 1368] will allow BESE to make arbitrary policy decisions against the schools’ wills. This is blatantly untrue.

Commentary: Progress vs. Seniority: Redefining Job Security for Teachers

With teachers being laid off as a result of the recession and vast budget deficits, how do schools decide which teachers will go? As seen in the New York Times, in New York City, outdated rules put in place by teachers unions and their friends in local government mean that new teachers will be the [...]

Commentary: Public Backlash Against Union Abuses Finally Taking Shape

A number of media outlets in the past few weeks have been assailing teachers’ and government workers’ unions for their implacable greed. It is important to draw the distinction between unions and their original purpose and unions in their current manifestation as politicized goliaths. When unions began forming, their grievances were well-founded . Hours and [...]