Is your child's school open now?
Probably not — because teachers unions say that reopening would "put their health and safety at risk."
Closed schools hurt low-income students most because they have fewer learning alternatives. The privileged get around union restrictions.
Almost all of California's government-run schools are closed, but California Governor Gavin Newsom sends his kids to a private school that stayed open.
Union demands include all sorts of things unrelated to teacher safety. The Los Angeles union demands: defunding the police, a moratorium on charter schools, higher taxes on the wealthy and "Medicare for All."
It's revealing that government-run schools fight to stay closed, while most businesses — private schools, restaurants, hair salons, gyms, etc., fight to be allowed to open.
Why is that? [Heritage Foundation's Lindsey] Burke points out that government schools "receive funding regardless of whether or not they reopen."
So, union workers get paid even when they don't work. Not working seems to be a big union goal.
Yet, the teachers unions keep winning. They will win more now that Democrats control the federal government. Congress' last stimulus package forbids any funds to be used to expand school choice: no "vouchers, tuition tax credit programs, education savings accounts, scholarship programs, or tuition assistance programs."
So, students lose. Parents lose. Taxpayers lose. America loses.
Unions win.
Probably not — because teachers unions say that reopening would "put their health and safety at risk."
Closed schools hurt low-income students most because they have fewer learning alternatives. The privileged get around union restrictions.
Almost all of California's government-run schools are closed, but California Governor Gavin Newsom sends his kids to a private school that stayed open.
Union demands include all sorts of things unrelated to teacher safety. The Los Angeles union demands: defunding the police, a moratorium on charter schools, higher taxes on the wealthy and "Medicare for All."
It's revealing that government-run schools fight to stay closed, while most businesses — private schools, restaurants, hair salons, gyms, etc., fight to be allowed to open.
Why is that? [Heritage Foundation's Lindsey] Burke points out that government schools "receive funding regardless of whether or not they reopen."
So, union workers get paid even when they don't work. Not working seems to be a big union goal.
Yet, the teachers unions keep winning. They will win more now that Democrats control the federal government. Congress' last stimulus package forbids any funds to be used to expand school choice: no "vouchers, tuition tax credit programs, education savings accounts, scholarship programs, or tuition assistance programs."
So, students lose. Parents lose. Taxpayers lose. America loses.
Unions win.
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