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Mike Antonucci of the Education Intelligence Agency reports that the National Education Association (NEA) gave $15 million in grants to 94 advocacy groups during the 2011-2012 fiscal year.  I did a cursory review of the list and found two North Carolina-based groups that received NEA funds. Center for Teaching Quality (Carrboro, NC) – $120,767 CommitteeContinue Reading

Reason.TV and Moving Picture Institute unleashed* a short video that explains how the public education system is designed to benefit unions and politicians, not families.  Indeed, our public school systems often operate as “political perpetual motion machines,” not institutions that fulfill the civic, economic, and social goals of the nation.     *Bugaboo word oftenContinue Reading

Paul Peterson, William Howell, and Martin West have some bad news for the Left.  In a poll conducted by Harvard University’s Program on Education Policy and Governance and the journal Education Next, positive view of unions dropped to 22% in 2012 from 29% in 2011.  For proponents of organized labor, it gets worse.  The authorsContinue Reading

Before: “GOP overrides veto of teachers union bill” (News & Observer article*, Thursday, January 5, 2012) “Just after 1 a.m. today, in a secreted session critics called unconstitutional, Republican legislative leaders passed a bill aimed at weakening the state’s largest teachers union.” After: “The NCAE is not, by the way, what some Republicans imply, aContinue Reading