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Reporting on Teachers Unions Has Been a Long Story. This Is the Last Page

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California Teachers Association Continues to Lose Members and Raise Union Dues

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‘Groundhog Day’: Public School Staffing Is Caught in a Time Loop

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Did AFT Actually Add 30,000 New Members This Past Year? Well, Not Really

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FBI and IRS Raid Local Teachers Union Headquarters in Jacksonville, Florida

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Most Americans Love Unions 鈥 But Not Enough to Actually Join One

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All Labor, No Management: When Principals Are Also Members of a Union

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LeBron鈥檚 School Has Everything We鈥檙e Told Students Need. It’s Still Failing Them

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LBGTQ Protections, Artificial Turf, Janus: What NEA Debated at Annual Convention

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At Its Annual Convention, NEA Didn鈥檛 Practice What It Preaches about Democracy

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Teachers Are Being Fined, Suspended for Quitting Before End of the School Year

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Why Is New York City Paying Teachers Union Members $3,000 to Accept a 20% Raise?

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From CA to MA, What Teachers Unions Have Been Doing in Statehouses Nationwide

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Membership Dropped 70,000, Revenues Grew $49M for NEA & Affiliates During COVID

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Has Teacher Pay Really Plummeted in the Last Decade? Yes 鈥 But Only Due to COVID

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Oakland’s Teacher Strike Is Settled, But These Union Tactics Aren鈥檛 Going Away

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Hot-Button Issues That Will & Won鈥檛 Be Addressed at the NEA Annual Convention

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Los Angeles Pays a Steep Price for Labor Peace. Will the War Continue Anyway?

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Some Unusual Twists as Hawaii Teachers Union Reaches Tentative Deal with State

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Public-Sector Hiring Boomed Post-COVID. Union Membership Nationwide Did Not

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Here We Go Again: L.A. Adds Instructional Days to Fight Learning Loss, Union Balks

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Settling L.A. Strike Causes Future Problems While Trying to Solve Past Ones

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As Schools Close for 3-Day Walkout, Could L.A. Strike Accelerate Learning Loss?

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NY, Chicago, LA: Power Plays by the Nation’s 3 Largest Teachers Union Locals

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How Teachers Union Politics Are Shaping the Chicago Mayor鈥檚 Race

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Why Does NEA Want Julie Su to Be the Next Secretary of Labor?

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Mergers and Acquisitions: How NEA's Membership Numbers Keep Going Up

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California Teachers Union Lost Members at 587 of 995 Affiliates Since 2019

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Ousted Teachers Union President Charged with Embezzling $411K from Virginia Local

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Despite What the Unions Say, Membership Rates Hit Record Low in 2022

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From Coast to Coast, What’s Going On with State & Local Teacher Union Affiliates

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No Matter How You Do the Math, Numbers Don’t Add Up to a School Staffing Crisis

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Lawsuits, Protests, Lobbying: Uproar as Retirees Fight NYC Unions over Medicare

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The 10 Most Memorable Teachers Union Quotes of 2022

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The NEA Collects $375 Million in Annual Dues. Here’s Where the Money Goes

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Teachers Union Membership Drops by 59,000 Across the Nation

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Early Results Show Union’s Favored School Board Candidates Win Big in California

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Both Sides Claim Victory on Education, but No Clear Lessons from Midterms

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California Teachers Unions Spending At Least $2.8 Million on 2022 Board Races

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PACs Get Attention, but Teachers Unions Still Dominate School Board Elections

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Teachers in 2 Mass. Districts Test Whether Walkouts Really Are Against the Law

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Open Collective Bargaining 鈥 Something Everyone Can Agree On?

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Union鈥檚 Survey About Why Teachers Leave Has Flaws, But Hints at Why They Stay

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Labor Strife Smoldering in NEA鈥檚 Maryland, Ohio Affiliates

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With COVID Aid Pouring in, School Funding Ballot Initiatives Scarce This Year

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Seattle Teachers End Strike, Aiming for More Employees for Fewer Students

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Miami Teachers Union President Running for Lieutenant Governor of Florida锟

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L.A. Teachers Union Files Labor Complaint Against Voluntary Extra School Days

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Minneapolis Teacher Layoff Exemption Based on Race 鈥 But Not the Way You Think

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Analysis: ‘Teacher Shortage’ 鈥 A History Told in Numbers, and Decades

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Analysis: Schools Closed, Membership Fell. NEA’s Take Still Rose by $35M in 2020

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After Millions in Relief Funds, Why Won鈥檛 Schools Do More to Find Lost Students?

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AFT Convention Seemed More Transparent Than NEA’s. But Looks Can Be Deceiving

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Analysis: NEA Representative Assembly Sets Out to Solve the World鈥檚 Problems While Neglecting Its Own

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Analysis: The NEA Representative Assembly Is Winding Down. Here’s What It Means

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Analysis: NEA Calls For End to School Police Policies Union Previously Supported

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Analysis: New York City Schools Take on Every Contentious Issue at Once锟

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Guns, Gas and Governments: Why Teacher Pension Divestments Are Complicated

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Exclusive: California Teachers Union Expects to Lose 4,000 Members, Gain $2.3M

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Analysis: Powers-That-Be Triumph in Union Elections in NYC, Chicago and MA

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Analysis: Salaries, School Spending & Inflation 鈥 When the Numbers Don’t Add Up

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Is 'Per-Pupil Spending' Really an Accurate Description?

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Which is More Important 鈥 Teachers Contract or Real Vaccination Cards?

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Can an Opposition Coalition Oust UFT's Leadership?

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Analysis: Amid Push for Collective Bargaining, Virginia Education Association Takes Control of Second Large Local in 5 Months

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For and Against Teacher Candidate Test 鈥 at the Same Time

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As Sacramento Teachers Strike, State Union Membership Shows Accelerated Losses

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Minneapolis School Board Member Quits After Strike Protest At His Home

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Minneapolis' Troubles Have Just Begun

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Minneapolis Teachers Strike, St. Paul Reaches Tentative Agreement

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High Drama Over Chicago Teachers Union's May Election

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Where Has Public-Sector Union Membership Dropped, and Where Has It Risen?

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Will 2022 Be the Year Teachers Union Dissidents Win?

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Union Membership Declined in 2021 鈥 No Amount of Spin Can Change That

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After Boycotting Texas, America鈥檚 Top Union to Move Annual Convention to Chicago

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What Does 'Safe' Mean When It Comes to Schools & COVID 鈥 Who Gets to Decide?

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'Dark Money,' Classroom Culture Wars & the National Education Association

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2021's Top 10 Quotes About Teachers, Unions & Education

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Union Membership Dropped During Year of Pandemic School Closures

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Exclusive: NEA Cancels July Convention in Texas Boycott

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How Much School Funding Goes to Salaries & Benefits?

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When the Teachers Union Tries to Unseat School Board Members

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Education Politics: Teachers Unions Aim to Rewrite History on School Reopenings

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VA State Teachers Union Places Large Local in Trusteeship

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NEA Membership Down 9% Since '09, But Finances & Influence Still Going Strong

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How Shuttered Schools Could Still Spend More

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State-by-State Breakdown of How Often Schools Call the Cops

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Are There Vaccine Mandates in Schools Or Not?

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How Much School Policy Is Based on Perception Instead of Knowledge?

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Mask Mandates, Vaccine Mandates & Collective Bargaining

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Financial Numbers Show How Top Union Was Affected By Janus Verdict, #RedforEd

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Inside Teachers Unions' Tone Shift on Vaccine Mandates

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Are 90 Percent of Teachers Really Vaccinated Against COVID-19?

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NEA Affiliates Could Use Some More Oversight

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AFT Mississippi Affiliate Alleges Cover-Up, Embezzlement

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Critical Race Theory, Plummeting Delegate Head Count at NEA Assembly

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NEA Continued to Lose Working Members in 2020

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NEA Budget Is a Lesson in Reading Between the Lines

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Teachers鈥 Unions Leverage Reopenings

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Unions, Membership and Getting Police Out of the Schools

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Analysis: With $122 Billion in School Rescue Funds, Unions Eye Hiring Spree

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Did Teachers Union鈥檚 Pressure Reshape CDC鈥檚 School Reopening Guidelines?

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COVID-19 Had Little Effect on Teacher Job Retention

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A Model of Nonunion Representation Is Under Fire

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Kentucky #RedforEd Group Joins AFT

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Analysis: Randi Weingarten Says Her AFT Has Been ‘Trying to Reopen Schools Since Last April.’ What the Union’s Locals Actually Did

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Analysis: A Split Between Biden and Teachers Unions on Reopening Schools? There Are 122 Billion Reasons Why It Doesn鈥檛 Matter

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New Numbers: The National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers Now Represent 1 in 4 U.S. Union Members

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Analysis: What Will School Staffing Look Like Over the Next 10 Years? Federal Stats Predict 1 Additional Teacher for Every 2 Additional Students

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Analysis: Pandemic or No, It鈥檚 Political Business as Usual for the California Teachers Association

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Analysis: What Emails Show About How Cardona Worked With Teachers Unions in Connecticut 鈥 and What That Could Mean For Reopening Schools as Education Secretary

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Antonucci: Biden Set a Goal of Returning Students to Classrooms in 100 Days, But It’s Not the President (Nor Any Governor or Mayor) Who Holds the Real Power to Reopen Schools

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Analysis: A National Teacher Strike Isn’t Really Possible. But With Unions Refusing to Go Back Until Classrooms Are Safe, This is What One Would Look Like

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Analysis: Are Teachers Unions Really Taking Over Biden鈥檚 Department of Education? Not So Fast

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Analysis: Teachers Unions Want a Seat at the Table When It Comes to Reopening Schools 鈥 But They Don鈥檛 Want It to Be the Hot Seat. That’s Why They Keep Moving the Goalposts

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Analysis: Teachers Unions Are Positioning to Negotiate How and When Schools Will Reopen. Money, Not Safety, Will Decide

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Analysis: In 2008, the NEA Demanded a Limited Federal Role in Education. Its Policy Wish List for 2021 Is Very Different

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Analysis: From School Cafeteria ‘Salad Girl’ to U.S. Secretary of Education? The Rise of Former NEA President Lily Eskelsen Garc铆a

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Analysis: NEA Wants an End to Tax Breaks for the Rich. With its Hundreds of Millions in Tax-Free Revenue, Those Pleas Ring Hollow

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Analysis: From School Spending to a Possible Cabinet Post, What Does a Post-Trump World Look Like for Teachers Unions?

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Analysis: Money Is No Object as the California Teachers Association Tries to Eke Out a Property Tax Ballot Victory

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Analysis: How Much NEA and AFT Are Spending on the 2020 Campaign, and Where They Are Spending It

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Analysis: American Federation of Teachers Membership Rose in 2020 鈥 or Fell, Depending on How You Look at It

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Analysis: To Preserve Their Exclusive Right to Representation, NEA, AFT and Other Major Unions Will Even Buy Into Janus Ruling

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Exclusive: Salary Cuts, Pension Debt and Charges of Racism 鈥 Teachers Unions Clash With Their Own Employees

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Analysis: From Virtual Picket Lines to Remote-Only Walkouts, What Would a COVID-19 Teacher Strike Look Like? Would It Make Any Difference?

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Analysis: Just Like School Reopening Policies, Education Staffing Is All Over the Place. Here’s What Some of the Job Numbers Show

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Analysis: Delegates to AFT’s Virtual Convention Have a Very Long Wish List. That Doesn’t Mean the Democrats, If They Win, Will Go Along

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Analysis: NEA Endorses Biden by Largest Margin in 24 Years 鈥 but With Fewer Delegates Voting 鈥 at Virtual Convention

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Analysis: California’s State Budget Has Big Benefits for Teachers Union, Stifles Charter Schools and Funds Phantom Students

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Analysis: Michigan Teachers Union & Its Health Insurance Trust Raked In at Least $11 Million in Small Business Bailout Money

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Analysis: NEA鈥檚 Membership May Drop, but Its Budget Continues to Grow. So Do Affiliates’ Dues

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Analysis: NEA Lost Almost 33,000 Working Members in 2019. Here’s the State-by-State Breakdown

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Analysis: Police Unions Stonewall All Attempts at Reform. So Do Teachers Unions. Is That Why They鈥檝e Been So Silent?

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Analysis: Reimagining Schools 鈥 or Reverting to Pre-COVID Classes? As States & Teachers Unions Draft Plans for an Unknown Future, Will They Even Work?

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Analysis: NEA Board, PAC Council Endorse Biden for President. Representative Assembly Will Weigh In by Mail in July

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Analysis: Schools and Their Unions Have Responded Admirably to the Coronavirus Crisis. What Happens to Labor Relations Now?

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Analysis: The National Education Association Cancels Atlanta Assembly, Will Hold Limited Virtual Convention in July

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Analysis: National Education Association Abruptly Endorses Joe Biden, Angering Sanders Supporters

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Analysis: The New Haven Teachers Union Is Redoing Its Election. The Reason Involves Gift Cards, Personal Loans & Accusations of Extortion

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Analysis: Virginia Education Association Wants Collective Bargaining for Teachers 鈥 but Talks With Its Own Employees Led to Lawsuits, Sanctions

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Union Report: Will NEA and AFT Ever Merge? They Last Tried in 1998. Things Are Much Different Now

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Union Report: New Year, Same Old Decline in Union Membership. But the Teachers Unions Are Still Big Fish in a Shrinking Pond

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Analysis: Tracking the NEA鈥檚 and AFT鈥檚 $43 Million in Donations to PACs, Advocacy Organizations, Nonprofits 鈥 and the State Engagement Fund?

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Union Report: The Numbers Are Complicated, but AFT Is Worth Around $580 Million, Financial Filings Show

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Union Report: #GreenForEd? NEA and Its State Affiliates Took In $1.6 Billion in 2018, Federal Disclosures Show

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Union Report: From Freeloaders, Robber Barons and 鈥楢cts of Terror鈥 to Jesus, Politics and the 鈥楯ail Community,鈥 the Decade鈥檚 Top Education Quotes

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Analysis: How Much Does NEA Spend on Politics? Union Poured More Than $4.6 Million Into State Ballot Initiatives

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Analysis: The NEA鈥檚 State of the Union 鈥 As Active Membership Declines by More Than 29,000, Political Spending Soars 36 Percent

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Union Report: L.A. Teachers Union鈥檚 Endorsement of Bernie Sanders May Affect the Union More Than It Does the Sanders Campaign

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Union Report: Bargaining for the Common Good Is Neither Common Nor Good. But It Makes for Great Public Relations

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Union Report: In Pushing Members to Back Sanders, L.A. Union President Dismisses Biden, Warren 鈥 Says Clinton, Obama Weren鈥檛 So Great Either

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Union Report: A Look at the Before-and-After of the Chicago Teacher Strike Raises the Question 鈥 Was the Walkout Worth It?

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Union Report: NEA Affiliate in Las Vegas Surrenders 30% of Members to Teamsters. Is This the Start of New Labor Arrangement?

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Union Report: Whom Will the Teachers Unions Endorse for President? 2 Political Case Studies May Offer Some Clues

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Union Report: Teachers Unions See Modest Membership Losses in 2018-19 School Year 鈥 Janus Decision Having Little Effect, So Far

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Union Report: The Looming Chicago Teacher Strike May Be As Much About Membership As It Is About Money

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Union Report: When Unions Open Their Own Charter Schools 鈥 Lessons From California鈥檚 Kwachiiyoa Elementary

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Union Report: Great New Essay Tells the Truth About Teacher Pay. Unfortunately, in Ed World, the Truth Is Just Another Story

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Union Report: As One Teacher Union Front Group Exposed, Another Takes Its Place

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Union Report: Read Across America, the NEA鈥檚 Most Successful Public Relations Campaign, Gets a Makeover

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Union Report: In the Byzantine World of American Federation of Teachers Membership, Numbers Just Don鈥檛 Add Up

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Union Report: New Federal Regulation Could Extend Financial Disclosure Rule to All State-Level NEA Affiliates

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Union Report: Janus Isn鈥檛 NEA鈥檚 Only Problem 鈥 State Affiliates Have Been Losing Membership Since Long Before the Supreme Court Ruling

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Union Report: 19,000-Member California State University Affiliate Cuts Ties With State Union, NEA in Major Blow to National Organization

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Union Report: NEA鈥檚 New 鈥楥ommunity Allies鈥 Membership Could Mean Million-Dollar Shot in the Arm to Union鈥檚 Political Action Committee

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Union Report: Mysterious Turnovers of Top Staff May Come as a Surprise, but They Are the Norm for the NEA and Its Affiliates

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Analysis 鈥 Why Charter School Supporters Shouldn鈥檛 Get Too Excited About That NEA Vote on Endorsements: Any Political Litmus Tests Are Still Up to the Union President

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Union Report: 鈥楥ommunity Allies,鈥 Control Over Locals, Charter School Reports & Impeachment 鈥 How Delegates Voted at NEA Convention

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Analysis: Fresh Concerns About the Financial Game of ‘Musical Chairs’ Behind California’s Teacher Retirement System

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Union Report: One Year Later, It鈥檚 Clear 鈥 the Janus Effect Is Not Yet What Either Side Had Hoped for, or Feared

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Mixed Results From New NEA Membership Numbers Pre-Janus Ruling, Post 2018 Teacher Walkouts in W. Va., Okla. and Ariz.

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Union Report: #RedForEd, Read Across America and 鈥業noculation鈥 Projects 鈥 How the NEA Media Fund Influences Public Opinion

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Analysis: Historic 14-Day Teacher Strike in New Haven, California, Ends With Deal in Which Educators Lost Money

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Union Report: What NEA Did 鈥 and Didn鈥檛 鈥 Do to Follow Up on Delegates鈥 Desires After 2018 Convention

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Antonucci: As L.A. Voters Weigh a Parcel Tax, Here鈥檚 a Stroll Through 31 Years of California School Funding Claims

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Union Report: The National Education Association Just Lost Another Large Local Affiliate. Could More of These Union Walkouts Reshape the Labor Landscape?

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Exclusive: New Hampshire Delegates Will Not Attend National NEA Convention, Citing Anti-Immigrant and LGBTQ Policies in Texas

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Exclusive: National Education Association May Lose Thousands of Las Vegas Members If City鈥檚 Bus Drivers, Food Service Workers & Custodians Shift to Teamsters

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Union Report: National Education Association to Seek Direct Trusteeship Over Rebellious Local Affiliates in Bylaw Proposed for July Delegate Vote

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Union Report: Weingarten鈥檚 Speech Teaches National Press Club to Beware of Statistics 鈥 and to Check Her Sources

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Union Report: When It Comes to Double-Dipping Pensions, Union Officials Are Happy to Take 鈥 but Not So Happy to Give

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Analysis: As Teacher Strikes and Grassroots Uprisings Give Way to a New Wave of Organized Rallies, Unions Look to Channel Educators鈥 Energy

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Union Report: Kentucky Unions Join Up to Try to Subdue 鈥楻ogue Groups鈥 Staging Teacher Sickouts

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Union Report: Paranoia? Conspiracy Theories? Apocalyptic Pronouncements? All Alive and Well at the NEA鈥檚 Annual Leadership Summit

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Antonucci: As Strike Fever Sweeps California, Something New in Sacramento: Teachers Union Has a Contract But May Walk Out Anyway

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Union Report: Job Cuts, a Strike Threat and a Sexual Misconduct Lawsuit 鈥 Union Updates From California, Colorado, Kentucky, Oregon and D.C.

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Analysis: A Proposed Parcel Tax in Los Angeles May Give to the City鈥檚 Teachers With One Hand 鈥 While Taking From Them With the Other

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Union Report: How Much Control Do Unions Have Over Teacher Protests? In Some States, a Lot. In Others, None at All

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Union Report: In the Past 3 Years, NEA Has Lost 2 Major Locals. Now It Is Creating Roadblocks to Keep More From Seceding

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Union Report: L.A. and Oakland Teachers Ended Their Strikes With Very Different Settlements 鈥 but Long Term, the Results Are the Same

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Union Report: When Will Teacher Strikes End? When the Unions鈥 Cost-Benefit Analysis Finds Them to No Longer Be Profitable

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Union Report: Oakland Teachers Are Set to Strike. Just Like in L.A., a 鈥楲eap of Faith鈥 Will Be Needed to End It

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Union Report: On the Heels of L.A. Strike, Expect Some Similar Tactics If Oakland Teachers Walk Out 鈥 but on a Smaller Scale

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Analysis: Behind the Denver Teacher Strike, the Union Cites a 鈥楥risis鈥 in Staff Turnover. But the Numbers Tell a Much Different Story

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Union Report: Did the 2018 Teacher Walkouts Reduce Membership Losses From Janus? The Answer Seems to Be Both Yes 鈥 and No

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Union Report: When It Comes to Messaging Around Membership and Janus, Unions Get an F in Math & History

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Union Report: Why Both the L.A. Teachers Union and the District Needed the Strike to Happen

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Union Report: Local Government Unions Grew Post-Janus 鈥 but News Wasn鈥檛 So Good for States or Feds in Just-Released Federal Stats

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Union Report: NEA and Its State Affiliates Are a $1.62 Billion Enterprise. Here鈥檚 a Breakdown of Their Membership and Finances

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Analysis: L.A. Teachers Cite Class Size as a Key Reason for Striking, but Their Union Has Agreed With That Part of Their Contract for at Least 18 Years

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Union Report: Are Teachers Quitting at Record Rate? Actually, They Leave Their Jobs at Lower Rates Than Almost Everyone Else

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Analysis: As Los Angeles Braces for Its First Teacher Strike in a Generation, Some Echoes Resonate From 1989

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The 10 Most Memorable Teacher Union Quotes of 2018

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The Unwritten Story of Chicago鈥檚 Charter School Teacher Strike: Unions See Walkouts as Survival Tool

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Union Report: How Many Affiliates Can NEA Prop Up? So Far, There Are 4 鈥 and They Haven鈥檛 Always Been Good Bets for the National Union

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Antonucci: This Is What It Looks Like When Teacher Unions Fight Their Own Employees

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Antonucci: The Showdown Between Los Angeles and Its Teachers Union Enters a Final Phase, as Teachers, District Leaders and Families Prepare for Possible January Strike

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Union Report: Election Results, #RedForEd, and the NEA: Lessons From Teacher-Candidates About This Year鈥檚 Vote 鈥 and the Next One

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Election-Day Final Sinks Teachers Running for Office in Three Education Battleground States

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Seven Questions About All Those 鈥楨ducators Running for Office鈥 Stories

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Union Report Exclusive: Internal Report Shows NEA Losses of 17,000 Members and 87,000 Fee Payers Since Janus Decision

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How to Elect 鈥 and Get Rid of 鈥 a Teacher Union President

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Union Report: Maryland Teacher Union Numbers Show Drop In Membership, Market Share Since Supreme Court鈥檚 Janus Ruling

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Meet the NEA Republicans: The National Education Association Just Recommended 289 House Candidates 鈥 Including These 10 Conservatives

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Analysis: Teacher Unions Focusing Efforts on Eight States as They Look to Impact 2018 Midterms 鈥 and Control of the Senate

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Antonucci: When Is a Teacher Strike Legal, and What Happens If Los Angeles鈥檚 Teachers Union Walks Out This Week?

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Union Report: Remember the 鈥楬avoc鈥 Janus Was Supposed to Cause? What Happened With That?

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Union Report: A Los Angeles Teacher Strike Seems Inevitable. Does the 2012 Chicago Walkout Hold the Key to a Solution?

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Union Report: Membership Remains High, but Teacher Unions Make It Difficult to Leave

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Union Report: Teachers Union Employees Stage Job Actions 鈥 Against Teachers Unions

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Teachers Unions Claim They Are Beating Back Janus鈥檚 Threat, but It May Take More Than a Year to Really Know

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LeBron James鈥檚 New School Has Bikes, Chromebooks, and, More Important, a Flexible School District and an Independent Teachers Union

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Union Report: Prediction 鈥 Los Angeles Teachers Will Go Out on Strike in October

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Union Report: More Bad News for Unions 鈥 Many May Have to Disclose Their Finances

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Analysis: Why the American Federation of Teachers Is Uniquely Vulnerable to the Supreme Court鈥檚 Janus Verdict on Mandatory Union Fees

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Why Los Angeles & Chicago Teachers Are Pushing the American Federation of Teachers Further Left on Political Endorsements

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NEA鈥檚 Gambit to Increase Membership Is Defeated in Vote; Leadership Pledges to Try Again Next Year

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NEA Budget Cuts Don鈥檛 Include Executives鈥 Salaries

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Analysis: NEA Membership Rises In Agency Fee States Where Janus Decision Would Hurt Most, Down Elsewhere

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Antonucci: In California, Mixed Signals From One Teachers Union Stalls a Ballot Initiative to Gut Prop 13 & Boost Education Funding, Punting Fight to 2020

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The California Teachers Association Slashes Budget by More Than $20 Million Ahead of Janus Supreme Court Ruling, Expects to Lose 23,000 Members

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Union Report: NEA Members Want More Say in How Union Decides Presidential Endorsements. But Leaders Are Refusing to Loosen Their Grip

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Union Report: NEA Members Want More Say in How Union Decides Presidential Endorsements. But Leaders Are Refusing to Loosen Their Grip

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Antonucci: What If the Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Teachers Unions in the Janus Case?

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Exclusive: Ahead of a Key Supreme Court Decision, America鈥檚 Largest Teachers Union Slashes Budget by $50 Million, Projects That 300,000 Members May Leave

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How to Stage a Successful Teacher Strike in 4 Easy Steps

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Refusing to Leave $6M in Dues on the Table, NEA Confronts Complications as It Tries to Hold On to Las Vegas Teachers Union

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Vegas Split 鈥 Clark County Teachers Union Cuts Ties to National Education Association, Major Loss to Largest U.S. Labor Union

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Union Report 鈥 NEA Conference Reveals Disconnect Between How One Teachers Union Trains Its Staff vs. How It Talks in Public

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Oklahoma鈥檚 Teacher Walkout: How Did Something That Started So Right End So Wrong?

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Union Report: How Much Control Do Unions Have Over Teacher Walkouts in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Arizona? Not as Much as You鈥檇 Think

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Analysis 鈥 A Reality Check About the Education Labor Arms Race: Oklahoma & W. Virginia Are Not Game Changers. Neither Is Janus

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Nevada Union and Its Largest Local Could Be Headed For a Quickie Divorce

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Analysis: The National Education Association 鈥 a $1.6 Billion Enterprise With a Red-Ink Problem

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Antonucci: Never Heard of UniServ? It Holds the National Education Association Together 鈥 and Could Tear It Apart

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Why Teacher Strikes Aren鈥檛 Like Other Strikes (Hint: Teachers Often Get Paid)

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Through the Janus Looking Glass: What If Teachers Unions Respond to Lost Agency Fees by Refusing to Represent Non-Members?

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Union Report: In West Virginia, 15,000 Teachers Are Planning a Walkout. The Strike Is Illegal 鈥 but It Shouldn鈥檛 Be

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Union Report: Why the NEA鈥檚 鈥楥ongressional Report Card鈥 Says Less About Congress Than It Does About the State of Democratic Party Politics

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鈥榃here Hope Goes to Die鈥: What It鈥檚 Like to Work for a Teachers Union 鈥 as Detailed by 13 Disgruntled Employees

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As Union Membership Drops Among Teachers, Will Weaker States Survive Janus?

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As Union Membership Drops Among Teachers, Will Weaker States Survive Janus?

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Union Membership Posts Modest Increase Across U.S. Despite Decline Among Local Government Workers

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Analysis: The 鈥極ne Percent鈥 Leaders of America鈥檚 Top Teachers Unions, All Making More Than $300,000 a Year

Mike Antonucci

Union Report: The 10 Most Memorable Teachers Union Quotes of 2017

Mike Antonucci

Union Report: The National Education Association Assails Corporations … When Not Making Money From Them

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: Inside the Financial Collapse of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: Five Common Teachers Union Arguments 鈥 That Rely on Half-Truths

Mike Antonucci

NYSUT鈥檚 Secretary-Treasurer, Who Teaches Full Time and Manages Union Finances on Weekends, Resigns from Management Post

Mike Antonucci

Antonucci: New Jersey鈥檚 Teachers Union Doesn鈥檛 Care What You Think

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: Why Millennials Can鈥檛 Save Unions

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: Teachers Unions Will Argue in Court That 鈥楢gency Fees鈥 Don鈥檛 Fund Political Activities. But They鈥檙e Saying Something Different to Members

Mike Antonucci

Union Report: 8 Ways the NEA Plans to Keep Power, Money, Members If SCOTUS Ends Mandatory Dues

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: Teacher Turnover Is High 鈥 Except When You Compare Teaching to Other Professions

Mike Antonucci

NYSUT Secretary-Treasurer Teaches Full Time, Manages Union Finances on Nights and Weekends

Mike Antonucci

Why Did the American Federation of Teachers Give More Money to a Magazine Than Its Own State Branches?

Mike Antonucci

Union Report: Top NEA Leader Promises a Progressive 鈥楿prising,鈥 but Is He Part of the Establishment Problem?

Mike Antonucci

Union Report: Teacher Hold 鈥橢m in Nevada, as Fractious Union and Its Largest Local Trade Lawsuits

Mike Antonucci

Antonucci: Why Do So Many Union Members Enjoy Reading Coverage That鈥檚 Critical of Their Leadership?

Mike Antonucci

Union Report: When NEA Speaks to National Press Club, the Faces Change but Song Stays the Same

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: When Unions Don鈥檛 Protect Teachers鈥 Jobs

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: Have We Hired Too Many Teachers? Scholar Warns of Economic 鈥楾ime Bomb鈥

Mike Antonucci

Exclusive: Teachers Union Document Reveals Master Plan for Unionizing Charter School Networks

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: Teachers Union Adds 40,000 Offshore Members While Labor Rolls Stagnate at Home

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: Which Bothers Randi Weingarten More 鈥 Segregation or School Choice?

Mike Antonucci

Six Secrets the National Education Association Keeps About Its Business Dealings

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: How the California Teachers Union Is Spending Its Summer

Mike Antonucci

Antonucci: NEA鈥檚 New Charter Schools Policy Isn鈥檛 New, Just Matches Union鈥檚 Long-Held Action Plan

Mike Antonucci

Union Report: After 19 Memorable Years, My Farewell to the Annual National Education Association Convention

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: NEA Membership Declined in 27 States, and One Where It Grew 鈥 NY 鈥 Is Anything but Typical

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: Janus Ruling Could Force Unions to Compete for Members

Mike Antonucci

Union Report: The Sad Triviality of the National Education Association鈥檚 Annual Conference

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: Boycotts? Endorsements? Not So Fast 鈥 NEA Top Brass Reins in Activist Members

Mike Antonucci

Janus v. AFSCME: Lawyers in Key Union Case Appeal to U.S. Supreme Court for 2017鈥18 Hearing

Mike Antonucci

Teachers Unions Prepare for Thousands of Lost Members as New Case Moves Toward the Supreme Court

Mike Antonucci

Opinion: State Union Rankings Show Strength of Labor Depends on Size of Government

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: From 鈥業ncarceration Pay鈥 to 鈥楻ule of 75,鈥 Surprising Contract Benefits for Teachers Union Staffers

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: A Brief Summary of the Bizarre (and Sometimes Funny) Things You Didn鈥檛 Know Were in Teacher Contracts

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: In Anonymous Poll, Employees of Florida鈥檚 Teachers Union Decry Working Conditions

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: A May Day March to 鈥楻eclaim Schools鈥 鈥 Previewing Teachers Unions鈥 Day of 鈥楢ction鈥

Mike Antonucci

Exclusive 鈥 The California Teachers Association Has a Whole Lot of Money to Burn: Here鈥檚 How It Spends It

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: My Union Has More Money Than Your Union

Mike Antonucci

Antonucci: Can Nevada鈥檚 Teachers Union Survive?

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: Are NYSUT鈥檚 Finances a 鈥楶onzi Scheme鈥? Former Financial Analyst Sounds the Alarm

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: Internal Documents Show Few Union Members Volunteered for Massachusetts Anti-Charter Campaign

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: Have the Unions Benefited From the DeVos Confirmation Fight?

Mike Antonucci

Analysis 鈥 New York鈥檚 Teachers Unions Are Millions in the Red: A Look at the Numbers

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: The NEA鈥檚 5 Financially Shakiest States

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: Was Hillary鈥檚 Union Support Limited to (Some of) the Public Sector?

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: The One Senator Teachers Unions Might Have Swayed on DeVos Is the One Who Couldn鈥檛 Vote 鈥楴o鈥

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: Facing Threats, Can Public-Sector Unions Learn From the Demise of Industrial Workers?

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: The Strange Disappearance of 69,000 AFT Members

Mike Antonucci

Antonucci: How Representative Are NEA鈥檚 Representatives?

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: The U.S. Department of Education 鈥 Born in the NEA

Mike Antonucci

Antonucci: The 10 Most Memorable Teachers Union Quotes of 2016

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: The Hundred-Year Teacher Shortage

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: With Question 2 Defeated, Mass. Teachers Turn to Ambitious Legislative Agenda

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: California Is Still the Golden State for Teacher Unions

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: Did Teachers Unions Learn Anything From Hillary鈥檚 Loss?

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: 6 Upsides of a Tough Election for Teachers鈥 Unions

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: The Tale of Teacher Attrition Takes Some JOLTS

Mike Antonucci

What Hillary Told the NEA

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: How NEA Brass Made Sure the Union Endorsed Clinton 鈥 Even If It Didn鈥檛 Want To

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: Teachers Unions Decry 鈥淥utside Money鈥 in Politics, but They鈥檙e the Source of a Lot of It

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: There Still Isn鈥檛 a Teacher Shortage Again

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: Now Critics, Unions Supported Build-Up of Police in Schools for Years

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: New Warnings of Teacher Shortage Sound Like D茅j脿 Vu All Over Again

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: Unions Have Cash but Not Partners in Fight Against MA Charter Proposal

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: How the NEA Came to Love Citizens United

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: When the National Education Association Fights With Its Own Breakaway Locals

Mike Antonucci

Analysis 鈥 When Teachers Unions Become The Man: Why Union Employees Are Fighting for Better Contracts

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: Act Locally, Think Nationally 鈥 The NEA鈥檚 Plan to Capture America鈥檚 Hearts & Minds

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: Los Angeles Teachers Head Is Ready to Incite A 鈥楽tate Crisis鈥 If Union Demands Are Not Met

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: 3 Things America鈥檚 Biggest Teachers Union Will Expect From a Clinton White House

Mike Antonucci

Opinion: Why the Friedrichs Court Case Will Give Teachers More Power 鈥 and Better Pay

Mike Antonucci & Michael J. Petrilli