State court punches union-backed ‘judge’ in the head

By Steven Greenhut
04/18/2017
If you’re wondering how far unions and the California officials will go to kill any reform of the state’s overburdened public pension system, wonder no more: consider instead the final chapter, last week, in a state agency’s long-running effort to invalidate San Diego’s 2012 citywide vote to reform pensions. The good news: a California appeals court rejected the...

TAGS: PERB

California's Official Antipathy to Educational Innovation and Accountability

By Edward Ring
08/11/2015
“With a hearing now scheduled for Aug. 21, LA Unified’s teachers union, UTLA, will have the chance to argue before a neutral party that Alliance College-Ready Public Charter Schools, violated state education law by blocking the union’s efforts to bring Alliance teachers into its membership.” – Mike Szymanski, “UTLA outlines accusations against Alliance for anti-union...

TAGS: Alliance College-Ready Public Schools, Eli Broad, PERB, United Teachers of Los Angeles, UTLA