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Joy Resmovits

Obama Budget Flatlines Education Funds For Poor Kids

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 04.10.2013 | Politics

While President Barack Obama's 2014 budget proposal asks for an overall spending increase to education, most of that will go to new programs and compe...

Report: Billions Needed To Fix America's Crumbling Schools

AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 05.12.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- America's schools are in such disrepair that it would cost more than $270 billion just to get elementary and secondary buildings back to...

Celebrating Read Across America Day

Posted 03.01.2013 | Parents

This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: Today, March 1, is the National Education Association’s 16th Annu...

In Los Angeles, An Expensive School-Reform Fight

Joy Resmovits | Posted 04.15.2013 | Los Angeles
Joy Resmovits

The nation's second-largest school district is at the center of a broader battle over the future over education reform. Since 2010, Superintendent John Deasy has run the district, implementing policies consistent with the national "education reform" movement, which pushes things such as test-based teacher evaluations and charter schools. But if the composition of the school board changes significantly, Deasy could be fired.

Who Gets Union Money?

Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.17.2013 | Home
Joy Resmovits

Mike Antonucci went through the National Education Association's financial disclosure report so you don't have to. The NEA is the nation's largest tea...

Joy Resmovits

Fiscal Cliff Ignites Education Activism

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.15.2012 | Home

Juandiego Wade is worried. As vice chair of the Charlottesville City School Board in Virginia, he's responsible for the well-being of its 4,000 stu...

Education 'Insiders' Extremely Skeptical Of Positive Education Reform Post-Election

Posted 11.14.2012 | Home

Education consulting group Whiteboard Advisors recently conducted surveys of 50-75 anonymous political and policy “insiders” prior to and in the a...

Spokane To Apply For Charter School After Approval Of Washington's Initiative 1240

Posted 11.13.2012 | Home

Washington’s Initiative 1240, which allows for the creation of up to 40 charter schools over five years, has been approved by a majority of Washingt...

Joy Resmovits

Barack Obama's Big Education Choice

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.08.2012 | Home

In Rick Hess's eyes, President Barack Obama has a big choice to make. "The president campaigned with a different face of education reform than what...

What 4 More Years For Obama Means For Education

| Sarah Butrymowicz | Posted 01.07.2013 | Home

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. President Barack Obama's victory on Tuesday gives him a chance to build on the education p...

Education In The Election: Key State Measures Up For Vote (SLIDESHOW)

Posted 11.06.2012 | Home

As voters cast their ballots today, those with an eye on education are keeping tabs on where states are leaning on the numerous education measures app...

Sabrina Siddiqui

Mitt Romney's Last-Minute Education Pitch

HuffingtonPost.com | Sabrina Siddiqui | Posted 11.04.2012 | Home

WASHINGTON -- For the last year, education advocates have been trying to get the subject of America's beleaguered public schools onto the agenda of th...

Idaho Education Changes Under Attack

stateline | Ben Wieder | Posted 01.02.2013 | Home

This piece comes to us courtesy of Stateline. Stateline is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news service of the Pew Center on the States that provides daily r...

15 NEA State Affiliates Ran Budget Deficits, Says Education Intelligence Agency Analysis

Posted 10.25.2012 | Home

Fifteen National Education Association state affiliates experienced budget deficits in the 2010-11 school year while 25 saw a decline in dues income, ...

As Election Nears, Teachers Push Pro-Obama Message In Swing States

| Sarah Butrymowicz | Posted 12.25.2012 | Home

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. In the swing states of Ohio and Florida, it's crunch time for teachers unions, which in th...

Joy Resmovits

Teachers Union Writes Romney A Faux Valentine

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 10.24.2012 | Home

Just how much does Mitt Romney love teachers? "I love teachers," he said repeatedly during a spirited exchange in Monday night's foreign policy deb...

The Rise Of Teachers Unions: A Look At Union Impact Over The Years

| Jackie Mader | Posted 11.20.2012 | Home

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's HechingerEd blog. The Chicago teachers strike, which ended Tuesday after more than a week...

Teachers' Unions Will Still Push Hard For Obama Despite Strike Tension

| Sarah Butrymowicz | Posted 11.12.2012 | Home

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. The head of one of the country's largest teachers unions knows all too well the frustratio...

Obama: America Can 'Out-Educate And Out-Compete' Any Country On Earth

| Sarah Butrymowicz | Posted 11.07.2012 | Home

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's HechingerEd blog. President Barack Obama had barely begun his acceptance speech at the De...

Joy Resmovits

Teachers' Unions Support Anti-Gay, Anti-Abortion Candidates

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 09.06.2012 | Home

It was the middle of July, and the race to represent Indiana's 36th district in the state senate was heating up. Incumbent Brent Waltz, an investment-...

Joy Resmovits

Romney 'Better Positioned' Than John McCain Was On Education, Poll Shows

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 10.21.2012 | Home

NEW YORK -- President Barack Obama is attacking presumed GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney on education this week in speeches, videos and radio adv...

The Market for Teacher Voice

Allie Kimmel | Posted 09.24.2012 | Home
Allie Kimmel

The teachers unions are under attack -- and not just from Scott Walker. In addition to attacks from politicians, media, and the public, some teachers have also voiced criticism of their unions.

Teachers Unions Give To Outside Causes, Political Campaigns

Posted 07.13.2012 | Home

The country’s two largest teachers' unions -- the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers -- spent a combined $330 mi...

GOP Teachers Balk At Obama-Centric Union Convention

AP | JOSH LEDERMAN | Posted 07.06.2012 | Home

WASHINGTON -- It had all the trappings of a re-election rally: thousands packing a convention center, Barack Obama T-shirts, videos celebrating the he...

Where Are Teachers' Unions Spending The Most?

| Sarah Butrymowicz | Posted 07.05.2012 | Home

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. As the 2012 election season intensifies, the country's two national teachers' unions are e...