If Teachers Unions Are So Great, Why Aren’t Our Schools?

At least on Labor Day the damage they can do is limited.

Teresa Mull September 4, 2017, 12:05 am

Last August hosted National Employee Freedom Week, a time to celebrate our nation’s 28 right-to-work states, lament over the 22 non-right-to-work states, and reflect on the destruction America’s teachers unions are inflicting on our youngest and most vulnerable citizens.

Government schools enroll the vast majority of U.S. students, about 90 percent. Despite the unions’ insistence there should be no alternative to public schools because public schools are the best thing for kids, we see American students losing ground to their international peers every year.

The 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) showed a decline in both 4th and 8th grade mathematics and reading scores compared to 2013. It also found a mere 37 percent of high school graduates are prepared for college. The 2016 Programme for International Student Assessment results revealed stagnant reading scores and plummeting math scores compared to the last time U.S. 15-year-olds took the test.........To Read More....