Public School Unions: How They Impact School Budgets and Students
An excerpt from The Politics of Education K-12 by Lonnie Palmer Why FDR Opposed Public Union Negotiations When I started teaching in 1970, I learned that Franklin D. Roosevelt did not support public union negotiations for salaries and benefits. This was surprising to me because FDR supported private unions and helped create the National Labor […]
The well-funded but debilitating barnacle on public schools
An excerpt from The Politics of Education K-12 by Lonnie Palmer Soon after becoming a teacher in 1970, I remember reading that Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the famous Democrat and depression era and WWII president, did not believe in public union negotiations for salary and benefits.[i] This confused me. Weren’t the Democrats supporters of unions? Didn’t […]