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NEWS ABOUT: teachers' unions

teachers' unions stories: 7 news summaries
DAVID BROOKS

 President Has Delivered
 Real Change in Education

Race to the Top program has sparked a 'quiet revolution' in education

Oct 23, 09 5:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama's huge success in education reform has been overlooked amid all the carping about his failure to deliver as much change as expected, writes David Brooks. The $4.3 billion Race to the Top fund Obama and Arne Duncan established has helped accelerate real reform in education and has... More »

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education • teachers' unions • Obama administration • President Obama • Arne Duncan • Race to the Top

Et tu, Barack? Teachers Lose Another Ally

Embattled unions don't want evaluation based on test scores

Sep 20, 09 5:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Teachers union members are fuming over President Obama's desire to stay the course and evaluate educators based on student test scores, McClatchy reports. Obama is even threatening to withhold California stimulus money unless the state enshrines the student-teacher performance link into law. "It takes more than the ability to... More »

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education • Barack Obama • California • reform • NAACP • teachers' unions • teachers • Arne Duncan • stimulus funds

INVESTIGATION

Accusations Rarely Fell
LA's Tenured Teachers

Review hearings costly, unreliable: principals

May 3, 09 3:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - One Los Angeles high school teacher allegedly ridiculed a student for failing to commit suicide. Another kept a trove of pornography, marijuana, and cocaine at school. A third drank alcohol in front of students. None was fired, the Los Angeles Times reports in an investigation of a school district afraid... More »

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Los Angeles • teachers' unions • principal • teachers • students

Calif. Teachers Drop $1M to Fight Gay Marriage Ban

Broader effort by ban opponents to step up funding

Oct 17, 08 8:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - The California teachers union donated $1 million to the fight to defeat a gay marriage ban on the ballot next month, reports the Los Angeles Times. Opponents of the ban have been dramatically outspent by supporters, and so have lately stepped up their fundraising. “For us it’s a... More »

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California • gay marriage • teachers' unions • Proposition 8

Obama Runs to Center on Education, Touts Charters

Democrat will support charter schools, merit pay for teachers

Sep 9, 08 12:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama will come out today in favor of merit pay for teachers, doubled federal support for charter schools, and other centrist strategies to boost American education, reports Time. In the draft of a speech he's giving in Ohio, Obama warns that teachers who fail to improve will “be... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • teacher pay • charter school • teachers' unions

UK Teachers Blame Parents for Bratty Kids

Pupils poor at behaving, good at manipulating adults

Mar 22, 08 3:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - UK teachers complain that classrooms are getting tougher to control because kids throw more tantrums—and parents are to blame, the Daily Telegraph reports. A Cambridge University study says that parents are letting children indulge in video games, junk food, and TV. "Teachers described highly permissive parents who admitted... More »

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education • parenting • children • parents • junk food • elementary school • teachers' unions • teacher • video games

OPINION

Obama Quits School Reform Talk on Trail

Senator may be caving to old guard where he'd been breath of fresh air

Mar 12, 08 6:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama has been backing off post-partisan rhetoric on education, looking more like a stick-in-the-mud Democratic regular on schools and less like the reformer who supported test-based accountability and performance pay for teachers. The Chicagoan had bucked teachers' unions and other stodgy liberals, supporting charter schools in Illinois and mentorship... More »

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education • Barack Obama • No Child Left Behind • charter school • vouchers • performance pay • teachers' unions • Teach for America

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