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The Education Exchange: “Release Time” Pay for Union Leaders Is Challenged in New Jersey Lawsuit
"The Jersey City School Board is essentially writing a blank check to the union," says lawyer for two taxpayers who object
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EdNext Podcast: Teachers Unions Shaping Reopening Decisions
Organized labor's public-sector power survives a Supreme Court decision
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EdNext Podcast: Reforming a Divided School System in Los Angeles
EdNext Podcast · Ep. 190 - March 4, 2020: Reforming a Divided School System...
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EdNext Podcast: Engaging Teachers Unions in Education Reform
Robert Maranto, the 21st Century Chair in Leadership in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas, joins EdNext Editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss why school reformers should try to work with teachers unions in an effort to improve schools.
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The Education Exchange: Public Sector Unions Not Devastated by Janus
When the Supreme Court ruled last year in Janus v. Afscme that unions could no longer collect agency fees from employees who choose not to join, many predicted a major decline in union membership. But according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, public union membership declined less than 1% in 2018. In this episode, Paul E. Peterson talks with Daniel DiSalvo.
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EdNext Podcast: What It Was Like to Go On Strike
In Oklahoma, teachers walked out for nine days this April to demand better pay and more spending on schools. Eleanor Goetzinger, a special ed teacher and behavior specialist in the Oklahoma City Public Schools, talks with Marty West about what the strike meant for her, for her students, and for schools in Oklahoma.
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The Education Exchange: Why Did the Supreme Court Change Course on Agency Fees?
On the last day of its 2017-2018 term, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Janus vs. AFSCME that public employee unions can no longer collect agency fees from non-members. Clint Bolick, an associate justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss why the U.S. Supreme Court felt it was necessary to overrule a decision from the 1970s allowing agency fees.
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Podcast: Education Next's Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. discuss the week’s education news, including an announcement that a charter school in Massachusetts has signed a collective bargaining agreement with its teachers, an agreement that includes merit pay.
Charter Schools, Unions, and Linking Teachers with Student Achievement Data
