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Teachers Unions Treat Citizens as Commodities that Pay Taxes

This article started out to be a well-researched effort to identify all the legal avenues available to parents to force teachers unions and the teachers we pay every week back to teaching our children in a classroom. My research found there is very little that parents/taxpayers can do to make teachers work for their money….

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Dems To Force Pence Tie Breaker Vote In DeVos Confirmation

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Phillip Stucky Democratic Senators remain unanimously opposed to Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos, a move that could very likely force Vice President Mike Pence to break the tie, according to a Wednesday report from Politico. Republicans hold a two-seat majority in the Senate, but Sens. Lisa Murkowski and…

District Revokes Pension Benefits For Teachers Who Only Did Union Work

Connor D. Wolf  A Pennsylvania teacher has had her pension benefits revoked following years of doing nothing but union work instead of her job, a lawyer involved said. Allentown Education Association President Debra Tretter has done nothing but union work since getting elected in 2009. In that time, she continued to accumulate pension benefits reserved…

Teachers Support Sanders But Their Unions Love Clinton

By Connor D. Wolf and Steve Birr Teachers unions may have been some of the first to endorse Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, but their actual members aren’t too keen on the former secretary of state, according to Thursday reports. Federal Election Commission records reveal Sanders received more money in February from those who listed themselves as…