A group of California teachers filed a federal suit claiming that the “agency-shop” law allowing for the collection of union fees must be overturned because it violates their rights of free speech and association.
Continue reading...A lawsuit by Florida’s teachers’ union filed in state court over the merit-pay law was dismissed today, with a circuit judge ruling the sweeping 2011 law did not violate teachers’ state constitutional rights.
Continue reading...Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, says teachers need at least a year to master the new common core before schools should be held accountable for results.
Continue reading...Teachers have filed suit in federal court charging Florida’s sweeping merit-pay law unfairly resulted in many teachers’ evaluations being based on the test scores of students or subjects they did not teach in violation of the equal-protection and due-process clauses of the U.S. Constitution.
Continue reading...A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has unanimously affirmed a federal district court’s decision that a provision in Wisconsin’s Act 10, which restricts the collective bargaining rights of public workers classified as “general employees”, is constitutional.
Continue reading...According to a report from Newsday.com in the Huffington Post, New York City schools and parents are bracing for a possible strike by bus drivers and bus attendants who say the city’s call for contract bids without employee protections threatens their jobs as well as student safety.
Continue reading...According to an Associated Press report in Seattle’s Pilot Intelligencer, voters in Idaho rejected all three of Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna’s education reforms. Luna’s plan to spend $180 million to lease laptops for high school students and create online-class mandates was turned down by 2/3 of voters. They also voted against his proposals to limit teachers’ collective bargaining rights and merit pay for teachers.
Continue reading...As reported in The New York Times, Judge Juan B. Colás of Dane County Circuit Court struck down much of the 2011 state law pushed through by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker that severely restricts the ability of public employees to bargain collectively.
Continue reading...According to The Huffington Post, some Florida teachers will be made to teach an extra hour each day, with their compensation for that additional hour still in flux, as reported by WPLG.
Continue reading...The Detroit News reports that the Michigan Education Association has obtained a preliminary injunction from a federal district court barring enforcement of a state law that prohibits local school districts from deducting union dues from school employees’ paychecks.
Continue reading...
Copyright © National School Boards Association. All rights reserved.
1680 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: (703) 838-6722 Fax: (703) 683-7590 E-mail: info@nsba.org