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Reporting on Teachers Unions Has Been a Long Story. This Is the Last Page

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California Teachers Association Continues to Lose Members and Raise Union Dues

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‘Groundhog Day’: Public School Staffing Is Caught in a Time Loop

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Did AFT Actually Add 30,000 New Members This Past Year? Well, Not Really

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FBI and IRS Raid Local Teachers Union Headquarters in Jacksonville, Florida

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Most Americans Love Unions — But Not Enough to Actually Join One

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All Labor, No Management: When Principals Are Also Members of a Union

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LBGTQ Protections, Artificial Turf, Janus: What NEA Debated at Annual Convention

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At Its Annual Convention, NEA Didn’t Practice What It Preaches about Democracy

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Teachers Are Being Fined, Suspended for Quitting Before End of the School Year

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Why Is New York City Paying Teachers Union Members $3,000 to Accept a 20% Raise?

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From CA to MA, What Teachers Unions Have Been Doing in Statehouses Nationwide

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Membership Dropped 70,000, Revenues Grew $49M for NEA & Affiliates During COVID

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Has Teacher Pay Really Plummeted in the Last Decade? Yes — But Only Due to COVID

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Oakland’s Teacher Strike Is Settled, But These Union Tactics Aren’t Going Away

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Hot-Button Issues That Will & Won’t Be Addressed at the NEA Annual Convention

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Los Angeles Pays a Steep Price for Labor Peace. Will the War Continue Anyway?

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Some Unusual Twists as Hawaii Teachers Union Reaches Tentative Deal with State

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Public-Sector Hiring Boomed Post-COVID. Union Membership Nationwide Did Not

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Here We Go Again: L.A. Adds Instructional Days to Fight Learning Loss, Union Balks

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Settling L.A. Strike Causes Future Problems While Trying to Solve Past Ones

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As Schools Close for 3-Day Walkout, Could L.A. Strike Accelerate Learning Loss?

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NY, Chicago, LA: Power Plays by the Nation’s 3 Largest Teachers Union Locals

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Why Does NEA Want Julie Su to Be the Next Secretary of Labor?

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Mergers and Acquisitions: How NEA's Membership Numbers Keep Going Up

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California Teachers Union Lost Members at 587 of 995 Affiliates Since 2019

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Ousted Teachers Union President Charged with Embezzling $411K from Virginia Local

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Despite What the Unions Say, Membership Rates Hit Record Low in 2022

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From Coast to Coast, What’s Going On with State & Local Teacher Union Affiliates

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No Matter How You Do the Math, Numbers Don’t Add Up to a School Staffing Crisis

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Lawsuits, Protests, Lobbying: Uproar as Retirees Fight NYC Unions over Medicare

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The 10 Most Memorable Teachers Union Quotes of 2022

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The NEA Collects $375 Million in Annual Dues. Here’s Where the Money Goes

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Teachers Union Membership Drops by 59,000 Across the Nation

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Early Results Show Union’s Favored School Board Candidates Win Big in California

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Both Sides Claim Victory on Education, but No Clear Lessons from Midterms

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California Teachers Unions Spending At Least $2.8 Million on 2022 Board Races

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PACs Get Attention, but Teachers Unions Still Dominate School Board Elections

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Teachers in 2 Mass. Districts Test Whether Walkouts Really Are Against the Law

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Open Collective Bargaining — Something Everyone Can Agree On?

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Union’s Survey About Why Teachers Leave Has Flaws, But Hints at Why They Stay

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Labor Strife Smoldering in NEA’s Maryland, Ohio Affiliates

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With COVID Aid Pouring in, School Funding Ballot Initiatives Scarce This Year

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Seattle Teachers End Strike, Aiming for More Employees for Fewer Students

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Miami Teachers Union President Running for Lieutenant Governor of Florida

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L.A. Teachers Union Files Labor Complaint Against Voluntary Extra School Days

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Minneapolis Teacher Layoff Exemption Based on Race — But Not the Way You Think

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Analysis: ‘Teacher Shortage’ — A History Told in Numbers, and Decades

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Analysis: Schools Closed, Membership Fell. NEA’s Take Still Rose by $35M in 2020

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After Millions in Relief Funds, Why Won’t Schools Do More to Find Lost Students?

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AFT Convention Seemed More Transparent Than NEA’s. But Looks Can Be Deceiving

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Analysis: NEA Representative Assembly Sets Out to Solve the World’s Problems While Neglecting Its Own

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Analysis: The NEA Representative Assembly Is Winding Down. Here’s What It Means

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Analysis: NEA Calls For End to School Police Policies Union Previously Supported

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Analysis: New York City Schools Take on Every Contentious Issue at Once

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Guns, Gas and Governments: Why Teacher Pension Divestments Are Complicated

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Exclusive: California Teachers Union Expects to Lose 4,000 Members, Gain $2.3M

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Analysis: Powers-That-Be Triumph in Union Elections in NYC, Chicago and MA

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Analysis: Salaries, School Spending & Inflation — When the Numbers Don’t Add Up

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Is 'Per-Pupil Spending' Really an Accurate Description?

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Which is More Important — Teachers Contract or Real Vaccination Cards?

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Can an Opposition Coalition Oust UFT's Leadership?

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Analysis: Amid Push for Collective Bargaining, Virginia Education Association Takes Control of Second Large Local in 5 Months

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For and Against Teacher Candidate Test — at the Same Time

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As Sacramento Teachers Strike, State Union Membership Shows Accelerated Losses

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Minneapolis School Board Member Quits After Strike Protest At His Home

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Minneapolis' Troubles Have Just Begun

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Minneapolis Teachers Strike, St. Paul Reaches Tentative Agreement

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High Drama Over Chicago Teachers Union's May Election

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Where Has Public-Sector Union Membership Dropped, and Where Has It Risen?

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Will 2022 Be the Year Teachers Union Dissidents Win?

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Union Membership Declined in 2021 — No Amount of Spin Can Change That

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After Boycotting Texas, America’s Top Union to Move Annual Convention to Chicago

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What Does 'Safe' Mean When It Comes to Schools & COVID — Who Gets to Decide?

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'Dark Money,' Classroom Culture Wars & the National Education Association

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Union Membership Dropped During Year of Pandemic School Closures

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Exclusive: NEA Cancels July Convention in Texas Boycott

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How Much School Funding Goes to Salaries & Benefits?

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When the Teachers Union Tries to Unseat School Board Members

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Education Politics: Teachers Unions Aim to Rewrite History on School Reopenings

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VA State Teachers Union Places Large Local in Trusteeship

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NEA Membership Down 9% Since '09, But Finances & Influence Still Going Strong

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How Shuttered Schools Could Still Spend More

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State-by-State Breakdown of How Often Schools Call the Cops

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Are There Vaccine Mandates in Schools Or Not?

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How Much School Policy Is Based on Perception Instead of Knowledge?

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Mask Mandates, Vaccine Mandates & Collective Bargaining

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Financial Numbers Show How Top Union Was Affected By Janus Verdict, #RedforEd

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Inside Teachers Unions' Tone Shift on Vaccine Mandates

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Are 90 Percent of Teachers Really Vaccinated Against COVID-19?

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NEA Affiliates Could Use Some More Oversight

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AFT Mississippi Affiliate Alleges Cover-Up, Embezzlement

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Critical Race Theory, Plummeting Delegate Head Count at NEA Assembly

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NEA Continued to Lose Working Members in 2020

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NEA Budget Is a Lesson in Reading Between the Lines

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Teachers’ Unions Leverage Reopenings

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Unions, Membership and Getting Police Out of the Schools

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Analysis: With $122 Billion in School Rescue Funds, Unions Eye Hiring Spree

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Did Teachers Union’s Pressure Reshape CDC’s School Reopening Guidelines?

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COVID-19 Had Little Effect on Teacher Job Retention

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