It’s almost Halloween and the California Teachers Association, a rich and powerful outfit, is in costume as one of the “99%ers” – protesters who claim to be have-nots. A couple of weeks ago United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten made sympathetic statements about the Occupy Wall...

Public employee unions portray themselves as representatives of public servants, whose only goal is to insure their members are treated like all other Americans.  Teachers’ unions especially portray themselves as having the best interests of students and parents at heart. The mask is starting to slip. Last week a 19 page power point presentation prepared...

Once a rabid anti-reformer, termed out United Teachers of Los Angeles President A.J. Duffy has become a union apostate…maybe. On September 1st, Los Angeles Times writer Howard Blume wrote what at first glance appeared to be satire. He reported that A.J. Duffy is starting his own charter school. For those of you who live a...

The California Teachers Association and Democrats in the legislature join forces to victimize school districts, children and taxpayers. In Sacramento, on Tuesday night, June 28, school districts, children and taxpayers were essentially mugged by a gang of Democrat legislators at the behest of their bosses in the California Teachers Association. Governor Jerry Brown, also in...

Twenty years of schooling in Los Angeles and you’re lucky if you can get any job, let alone one on the day shift. Bob Dylan penned the words in the headline (sans the union part) almost a half century ago but having been quoted by many, they live on. The latest example of the lyrics’...

Hookers plying their trade while government turns a blind eye. Consequences for sexual perverts? No, the state doesn’t seem to care. Whistle blower fired for exposing massive corruption. Rampant nepotism in government jobs. Private bureaucratic empire using public funds. The above could probably pass as blurbs for a sequel to the movie Chinatown. But while...

The very creepy sexualization of young children, a part of the teachers unions’ progressive agenda, goes on unabated. In the past few years, teachers unions in the United States have gotten into the perverse business of sexualizing children. I first wrote about this phenomenon several years ago. In 2004, the National Education Association gave its...

Cindy Sheehan, Code Pink and a band of fringe groups have joined the California Teachers Association protest in Sacramento. We are now in the midst of California Teachers Association’s desperation week or as they are calling it “state of emergency.” At the crux of the issue is that Governor Jerry Brown will unveil his revised...

CTA and CFT sponsor legislation that imperils charter schools in California. On April 27, Rasmussen Reports released the results of a poll which addresses American voters’ sentiments about our public schools. Some of the more interesting findings are: • 72% say taxpayers are not getting their money’s worth from our schools, while only 11% think...

The teachers unions’ radical agenda alienates them from the American mainstream. As I mentioned in last week’s post, during the week of May 9th, the California Teachers Association and many local unions, like the United Teachers of Los Angeles, will be taking to the streets in an attempt to convince legislators and citizens that cuts...