Are teachers' unions on the defensive? What should their strategy be?
November 8, 2010 | 2:19 pm
The Times' Mitchell Landsberg looked at the question, noting that even the long-held protections and prerogatives conferred by seniority and tenure no longer seem sacrosanct.
A nationwide school reform movement with bipartisan support has collided head-on with unions over three ideas that labor has long resisted: expansion of charter schools, the introduction of merit pay for teachers and the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations. "To say that we're under attack is an understatement," Los Angeles teachers
for the results of the Fed’s plan to boost the sluggish U.S. economy.
Anyone who has gone to college knows that even the smallest university campus doesn't function without the efforts of underappreciated institutional employees: folks who work in the food service, clean the dorms and campus buildings, and maintain the lawns that so many undergrads use for Frisbee games or lounging around in the warmer months, pretending to study. What may shock you is that many of those vital service employees aren't paid a living wage.