When schools across the nation closed in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, few would have predicted that large swathes of the United States, almost alone among nations in…
Americans are beginning to wake up to the Biden administration’s obsequiousness to its paymasters in organized labor, and they are watching with growing alarm as teachers unions vow never to…
In 2020, unions were doing what unions do—only more so—by leveraging the COVID-19 pandemic. Michael Watson explains how coronavirus legislation was delayed with early Christmas presents for Big Labor, not…
Teachers unions have shut down schools for goals entirely unrelated to protecting teachers from illness, explicitly demanding defunding the police, wealth taxes, bans on new charter schools, and public benefits…
COVID-19 has drastically changed the lives of millions of American children. Though children are substantially less likely to be harmed by the a COVID infection, schools across the nation have…
A new report by Openthebooks.com, a fiscal accountability watchdog, reveals New York City spends gobs of money in public employee overtime costs. In fiscal year 2016, New York paid…
Teacher absenteeism in schools has turned into a chronic plague of hypocrisy: schools insist students be present, but can’t seem to get their faculty to do the same. A recent…
A new analysis of the top American universities by the New York Times finds that black and Hispanic students are more underrepresented in higher education than they were 35…
New York’s so-called “rubber rooms”—reassignment centers where hundreds of teachers in need of academic discipline are sent to do virtually no work—are a running joke in the city. Teachers in…
https://www.youtube.com/embed/UL2EfDqrj78 Summary: When the Trump Administration nominated school choice advocate and philanthropist Betsy DeVos to serve as Secretary of Education, the backlash was immediate and extreme. And when Los Angeles’s…