Tag: American Federation of Teachers

It is an open doors day in a school. We see a big queue of adults and children near to a school. Children and their parents – all together welcome to school!

^{Keri D. Ingraham
January 25, 2024
School Choice}

Parental Pursuit of School Choice Is Skyrocketing

_{Keri D. Ingraham
January 25, 2024
School Choice}

It is National School Choice Week, and parental demand for educational options for their children is surging. A January parent survey revealed that 72% of parents “considered new schools for their children last year–a 35% increase over 2022.” Sixty-three percent searched for a new school, and 44% chose one. Read More ›

An American flag against a blue sky on an old rusty flagpole

^{Keri D. Ingraham & Jason Bedrick
October 16, 2023
School Choice, Unions}

School Choice Is Better for Democracy Than Government Schooling

_{Keri D. Ingraham & Jason Bedrick
October 16, 2023
School Choice, Unions}

As state after state embraces policies that empower parents with more options in K-12 education, opponents of school choice are claiming that it is a “threat to democracy.” But if anything, school choice is better for democracy than government-run schooling. Read More ›

Crowd of people at a protest rally in America against the current government with their hands in the air, view from the back, peaceful march of the country's for freedom and democracy. Generative AI

^{Keri D. Ingraham
July 26, 2023
Unions}

Teachers Unions Pretend to Promote Freedom

_{Keri D. Ingraham
July 26, 2023
Unions}

With the hashtag “#TeachTruth,” the National Education Association demanded the “freedom to teach” and the “freedom to learn” at their annual Representative Assembly earlier this month. It is laughable that the representatives and leaders of the world’s largest teachers union are masquerading as champions of freedom. Read More ›

Woke Policies Social Justice Education Awareness Headlines Rules 3d Illustration

^{Keri D. Ingraham
March 16, 2023
Innovation, School Choice}

Union Leaders & Bureaucrats Have Long Ignored Parents’ Concerns

_{Keri D. Ingraham
March 16, 2023
Innovation, School Choice}

With families wanting other options than the traditional public school and with the passage of school choice bills, the K-12 education market is experiencing a much-needed shake up. Parents are now seeing themselves as consumers of K-12 education for their children. Read More ›

^{Keri D. Ingraham
November 8, 2022
School Choice, Unions}

Constraints on Educational Freedom Have Dems Fleeing the Party

_{Keri D. Ingraham
November 8, 2022
School Choice, Unions}

White suburban women, who comprise roughly 20% of the electorate, have swung right. Concerns about skyrocketing costs and crime have been top of mind for these women, and for the moms and grandmothers of this population segment, education has been a key driver of their party affiliation change. Read More ›

Teaching dumb students. Teacher mature man. Fed up. Man desperate teacher in classroom. No hope for better. Tired and exhausted. Difficult work. Emotional burnout. Teacher give up. Hate his job

^{Keri D. Ingraham
August 18, 2022
Unions}

Teachers’ Unions’ Blame Game

_{Keri D. Ingraham
August 18, 2022
Unions}

American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten was instrumental in keeping kids locked out of in-person schooling as she mercilessly pushed the union’s self-serving political agenda. Now she uses the dire situation she helped create as the excuse for the teacher-shortage crisis. Read More ›

^{Keri D. Ingraham
June 4, 2021
Indoctrination}

The Radical Reshaping of K-12 Public Education (Part 2): Civics & History

_{Keri D. Ingraham
June 4, 2021
Indoctrination}

The indoctrination of our future electorate, instead of presenting historical facts and fostering higher-order thinking skills in students (analysis, synthesis, etc.), is producing generations who will blindly support ideologies they have yet to evaluate for themselves based on fact. Read More ›

Two classmates with face masks sharing hand sanitizer in the classroom.

^{Keri D. Ingraham
March 23, 2021
Education Policy, Unions}

A Win for Private Schools

_{Keri D. Ingraham
March 23, 2021
Education Policy, Unions}

In a surprising move, Democrat Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer, advocated for private schools to receive $2.75 billion as part of the American Rescue Plan. Schumer, motivated by the powerful New York City Orthodox Jewish Community lobby, immediately came under attack by fellow Democrats, teacher unions, and public school associations. Read More ›

President Joe Biden walks along the Colonnade Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021, to the Oval Office of the White House.

^{Keri D. Ingraham
February 17, 2021
Education Policy, Unions}

$130 Billion & First 100 Days

_{Keri D. Ingraham
February 17, 2021
Education Policy, Unions}

President Biden promised to reopen K-12 public schools within his first 100 days in office. His current proposal entails $130 billion of funding toward this end. Will the teacher unions determine this massive funding sufficient and get their teachers back on campus and in classrooms? Read More ›

^{Keri D. Ingraham
December 22, 2020
Teaching, Unions}

The Chasm Spanning Public and Private Schools Continues in a COVID-19 Era

_{Keri D. Ingraham
December 22, 2020
Teaching, Unions}

There was a stark difference between public and private schools in how they handled the launch of the school year in mid-August to early September as a response to COVID-19. The situation is no different as 2020 comes to a close. Half of all U.S. public schools are closed either entirely or partially, as opposed to private schools who scrambled last summer to open on day one of their scheduled school year and have remained in full operation since. Read More ›