This article comes to us from ZeroHedge Fund. Authored by Larry Sand via American Greatness The Supreme Court’s 2018 Janus decision asserted that no teacher or any public employee has to pay a penny to a union as a condition of employment. While the unions have made it very difficult for teachers to leave, it is certainly doable. So how many teachers have left their union? According to a U.S. Department of Labor report filed in December, which includes data from the 2023-24 school year, the National Education Association has 2,839,808 total members, including educators, student teachers, retirees, NEA staff, and other miscellaneous categories. That’s down from 2,857,703 the … [Read more...]
Has the high school diploma lost all meaning?
This article comes from The Thomas Fordham Institute. Last week, an NPR affiliate threw super-cooled water on D.C.’s Ballou High School’s so-called success in graduating 64 percent of its seniors and earning every senior, regardless of whether they graduated, college acceptance. Turns out that, although 164 students were granted diplomas, more than half of those who walked across the graduation stage tallied at least sixty days of unexcused school absences, and one cap-and-gown wearer recorded more than 150. As shocking as these seat-time revelations are, they merely add to other signs of academic struggle at Ballou. Last year, for example, only 9 percent of the school’s pupils … [Read more...]