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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?

Mike Antonucci

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

Mike Antonucci

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