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

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

Mike Antonucci
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Miami Teachers Union President Running for Lieutenant Governor of Florida

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mike Antonucci
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Can an Opposition Coalition Oust UFT's Leadership?

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

Mike Antonucci
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For and Against Teacher Candidate Test — at the Same Time

Mike Antonucci
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As Sacramento Teachers Strike, State Union Membership Shows Accelerated Losses

Mike Antonucci
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Minneapolis School Board Member Quits After Strike Protest At His Home

Mike Antonucci
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Minneapolis' Troubles Have Just Begun

Mike Antonucci
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Minneapolis Teachers Strike, St. Paul Reaches Tentative Agreement

Mike Antonucci
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High Drama Over Chicago Teachers Union's May Election

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

Mike Antonucci
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Will 2022 Be the Year Teachers Union Dissidents Win?

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

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

Mike Antonucci
Pandemic

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

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

Mike Antonucci
Pandemic

Union Membership Dropped During Year of Pandemic School Closures

Mike Antonucci
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Exclusive: NEA Cancels July Convention in Texas Boycott

Mike Antonucci
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How Much School Funding Goes to Salaries & Benefits?

Mike Antonucci
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When the Teachers Union Tries to Unseat School Board Members

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

Mike Antonucci
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VA State Teachers Union Places Large Local in Trusteeship

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

Mike Antonucci
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How Shuttered Schools Could Still Spend More

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

Mike Antonucci
Pandemic

Are There Vaccine Mandates in Schools Or Not?

Mike Antonucci
Union Report

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

Mike Antonucci
Pandemic

Mask Mandates, Vaccine Mandates & Collective Bargaining

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

Mike Antonucci
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Inside Teachers Unions' Tone Shift on Vaccine Mandates

Mike Antonucci
Pandemic

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

Mike Antonucci
Union Report

NEA Affiliates Could Use Some More Oversight

Mike Antonucci
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AFT Mississippi Affiliate Alleges Cover-Up, Embezzlement

Mike Antonucci
Pandemic

Critical Race Theory, Plummeting Delegate Head Count at NEA Assembly

Mike Antonucci
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NEA Continued to Lose Working Members in 2020

Mike Antonucci
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NEA Budget Is a Lesson in Reading Between the Lines

Mike Antonucci
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Teachers’ Unions Leverage Reopenings

Mike Antonucci
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Unions, Membership and Getting Police Out of the Schools

Mike Antonucci
Pandemic

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

Mike Antonucci
Pandemic

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

Mike Antonucci
Pandemic

COVID-19 Had Little Effect on Teacher Job Retention

Mike Antonucci
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A Model of Nonunion Representation Is Under Fire

Mike Antonucci
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Kentucky #RedforEd Group Joins AFT

Mike Antonucci
Pandemic

Analysis: Randi Weingarten Says Her AFT Has Been ‘Trying to Reopen Schools Since Last April.’ What the Union’s Locals Actually Did

Mike Antonucci
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Analysis: A Split Between Biden and Teachers Unions on Reopening Schools? There Are 122 Billion Reasons Why It Doesn’t Matter

Mike Antonucci
Pandemic

New Numbers: The National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers Now Represent 1 in 4 U.S. Union Members

Mike Antonucci
Union Report

Analysis: What Will School Staffing Look Like Over the Next 10 Years? Federal Stats Predict 1 Additional Teacher for Every 2 Additional Students

Mike Antonucci
Pandemic

Analysis: Pandemic or No, It’s Political Business as Usual for the California Teachers Association

Mike Antonucci
Union Report

Analysis: What Emails Show About How Cardona Worked With Teachers Unions in Connecticut — and What That Could Mean For Reopening Schools as Education Secretary

Mike Antonucci
Pandemic

Antonucci: Biden Set a Goal of Returning Students to Classrooms in 100 Days, But It’s Not the President (Nor Any Governor or Mayor) Who Holds the Real Power to Reopen Schools

Mike Antonucci
Pandemic

Analysis: A National Teacher Strike Isn’t Really Possible. But With Unions Refusing to Go Back Until Classrooms Are Safe, This is What One Would Look Like

Mike Antonucci
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Analysis: Are Teachers Unions Really Taking Over Biden’s Department of Education? Not So Fast

Mike Antonucci
Pandemic

Analysis: Teachers Unions Want a Seat at the Table When It Comes to Reopening Schools — But They Don’t Want It to Be the Hot Seat. That’s Why They Keep Moving the Goalposts

Mike Antonucci
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Analysis: Teachers Unions Are Positioning to Negotiate How and When Schools Will Reopen. Money, Not Safety, Will Decide

Mike Antonucci
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Analysis: In 2008, the NEA Demanded a Limited Federal Role in Education. Its Policy Wish List for 2021 Is Very Different

Mike Antonucci
EDlection 2020

Analysis: From School Cafeteria ‘Salad Girl’ to U.S. Secretary of Education? The Rise of Former NEA President Lily Eskelsen García

Mike Antonucci
EDlection 2020

Analysis: NEA Wants an End to Tax Breaks for the Rich. With its Hundreds of Millions in Tax-Free Revenue, Those Pleas Ring Hollow

Mike Antonucci
EDlection 2020

Analysis: From School Spending to a Possible Cabinet Post, What Does a Post-Trump World Look Like for Teachers Unions?

Mike Antonucci
EDlection 2020

Analysis: Money Is No Object as the California Teachers Association Tries to Eke Out a Property Tax Ballot Victory

Mike Antonucci
EDlection 2020

Analysis: How Much NEA and AFT Are Spending on the 2020 Campaign, and Where They Are Spending It

Mike Antonucci
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Analysis: American Federation of Teachers Membership Rose in 2020 — or Fell, Depending on How You Look at It

Mike Antonucci
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Analysis: To Preserve Their Exclusive Right to Representation, NEA, AFT and Other Major Unions Will Even Buy Into Janus Ruling

Mike Antonucci
Union Report

Exclusive: Salary Cuts, Pension Debt and Charges of Racism — Teachers Unions Clash With Their Own Employees

Mike Antonucci
Pandemic

Analysis: From Virtual Picket Lines to Remote-Only Walkouts, What Would a COVID-19 Teacher Strike Look Like? Would It Make Any Difference?

Mike Antonucci
Pandemic

Analysis: Just Like School Reopening Policies, Education Staffing Is All Over the Place. Here’s What Some of the Job Numbers Show

Mike Antonucci
EDlection 2020

Analysis: Delegates to AFT’s Virtual Convention Have a Very Long Wish List. That Doesn’t Mean the Democrats, If They Win, Will Go Along

Mike Antonucci
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Analysis: NEA Endorses Biden by Largest Margin in 24 Years — but With Fewer Delegates Voting — at Virtual Convention

Mike Antonucci
Pandemic

Analysis: California’s State Budget Has Big Benefits for Teachers Union, Stifles Charter Schools and Funds Phantom Students

Mike Antonucci
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Analysis: Michigan Teachers Union & Its Health Insurance Trust Raked In at Least $11 Million in Small Business Bailout Money

Mike Antonucci
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Analysis: NEA’s Membership May Drop, but Its Budget Continues to Grow. So Do Affiliates’ Dues

Mike Antonucci
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Analysis: NEA Lost Almost 33,000 Working Members in 2019. Here’s the State-by-State Breakdown

Mike Antonucci
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Analysis: Police Unions Stonewall All Attempts at Reform. So Do Teachers Unions. Is That Why They’ve Been So Silent?

Mike Antonucci
Pandemic

Analysis: Reimagining Schools — or Reverting to Pre-COVID Classes? As States & Teachers Unions Draft Plans for an Unknown Future, Will They Even Work?

Mike Antonucci
EDlection 2020

Analysis: NEA Board, PAC Council Endorse Biden for President. Representative Assembly Will Weigh In by Mail in July

Mike Antonucci
Coronavirus

Analysis: Schools and Their Unions Have Responded Admirably to the Coronavirus Crisis. What Happens to Labor Relations Now?

Mike Antonucci
Coronavirus

Analysis: The National Education Association Cancels Atlanta Assembly, Will Hold Limited Virtual Convention in July

Mike Antonucci
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Analysis: National Education Association Abruptly Endorses Joe Biden, Angering Sanders Supporters

Mike Antonucci
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Analysis: The New Haven Teachers Union Is Redoing Its Election. The Reason Involves Gift Cards, Personal Loans & Accusations of Extortion

Mike Antonucci
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Analysis: Virginia Education Association Wants Collective Bargaining for Teachers — but Talks With Its Own Employees Led to Lawsuits, Sanctions

Mike Antonucci
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Union Report: Will NEA and AFT Ever Merge? They Last Tried in 1998. Things Are Much Different Now

Mike Antonucci
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Union Report: New Year, Same Old Decline in Union Membership. But the Teachers Unions Are Still Big Fish in a Shrinking Pond

Mike Antonucci
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Analysis: Tracking the NEA’s and AFT’s $43 Million in Donations to PACs, Advocacy Organizations, Nonprofits — and the State Engagement Fund?

Mike Antonucci
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Union Report: #GreenForEd? NEA and Its State Affiliates Took In $1.6 Billion in 2018, Federal Disclosures Show

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