The Institute for Education Reform proudly supports RS 32070, introduced by Rep. Judy Boyle (R—District 9), which seeks to end taxpayer funding of teachers unions in Idaho. This bill is a crucial step toward ensuring that public funds are used to serve students, parents, and communities—not special interest groups pushing political agendas. Why This MattersFor too long, teachers […]
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Congratulations to Oklahoma Education Association president Katherine Bishop for a runaway win of the coveted Blue Ribbon of Irony. In a recent opinion editorial, Ms. Bishop took to the pages of The Oklahoman to lay out her concerns for public education in Oklahoma. Surprising no one, she complained about the elected Republican State Superintendent of
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Burdened by desire for fiscal accountability and the needs of students, Utah’s largest teacher union has filed a lawsuit to have the state’s new school choice program declared “unconstitutional.” While the gall of a public sector union leveling accusations of “constitutionality” about anything at all is hilarious, the lawsuit only drives home a point that
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SB 1513 is headed toward debate on the floor of the Oklahoma State House of Representatives. As we previously noted, this legislation is quite straightforward in its intent: no school district can force employees to meet with an outside organization, districts can’t use their resources to communicate on behalf of outside organizations, and no outside
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Oklahoma lawmakers are getting a taste of teacher union entitlement, as they consider legislation that would restrict unions’ ability to treat public school educators as a captive audience. If passed into law, Senate Bill 1513 would keep districts from requiring or coercing teachers into engaging with unions, or giving preferential treatment towards any one union.
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A plan to disentangle state resources from the collection of partisan union dues is working its way through the Oklahoma State Legislature, and could be enshrined in state law within weeks. Legislation that would prohibit school districts from deducting union dues from teacher paychecks passed through the Oklahoma State Senate Committee on Education with overwhelming
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