Education Minnesota
GROUP INVOLVED IN REDISTRICTING TURNS OUT TO BE FRONT GROUP FOR DFL ACTIVISTS
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011Via Let Freedom Ring, Gary Gross has exposed Draw the Line Minnesota, pretending to be a non-partisan group involved in the redistricting process for Minnesota districts. Part 1: Over the next 3 weeks, an organization called Draw the Line Minnesota will hold hearings on the topic of redistricting. Follow this link for a listing of all the [...]
EDUCATION MINNESOTA LOSING ITS INFLUENCE QUICKLY
Thursday, March 31st, 2011Education Minnesota, the union of 70,000 state education workers, has seen better days. After helping propel union favorite Mark Dayton into the governor’s mansion by a razor-thin margin, Ed Minnesota was riding high going into this year’s legislative session. When the GOP took the gavels in the state legislature, their long history of one-sided support [...]
MINNESOTANS JOIN UNION CHEESEHEADS WHILE ED MINN LEADER CONFUSES EAST WITH WEST
Saturday, February 19th, 2011MDE has obtained an email being distributed to union members in Minnesota by a local union leader and Education Minnesota Board Member, encouraging them to join organized protests and door-to-door advocacy walks this weekend in Hudson. At the end of her note to activists, Blaha confuses Wisconsin’s geographic location in proximity to Minnesota and calls [...]
HISTORIC EDUCATION REVITALIZATION CONTINUES AS SENATE TAKES UP ALTERNATIVE TEACHING PATHWAYS
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011A bill to authorize alternative pathways for teachers has made its way to the MN Senate floor, just one of many pieces Senate Republicans have rolled out to reform Minnesota’s education system. Senator Dave Thompson, a leader on education in the Senate, tweeted about floor action this afternoon. Education Minnesota, the state’s educators union, strongly [...]
PUPPET SHOW: LOCAL ED MN LEADERS INSTRUCT TEACHERS TO SNUB STATE SENATOR
Thursday, January 27th, 2011MDE has obtained email exchanges from a local Education Minnesota union leader to teachers in school district #194 instructing them to not cooperate with a survey sent to them by their local State Senator. The Lakeville area school district is home to thousands of students in Sen. Dave Thompson’s district. After introducing legislation to better [...]
OUT WITH THE OLD: TEACHERS UNION BECOMING IRRELEVANT AND DESPERATE
Thursday, January 27th, 2011Education Minnesota, the union representing thousands of Minnesota educators, has decided it is in their best interest to improve their public image for political purposes. In an email obtained by the Freedom Foundation, union President, Tom Dooher, asks local union leaders to encourage any Republican teachers to get more involved in the legislative process. This [...]
WILL ALLIANCE FOR BETTER MN BECOME THE NORM AT THE DFL?
Monday, December 13th, 2010Updated: Ken Martin has made his bid for DFL Chair official. The Alliance for a Better Minnesota (ABM) played an influential role in electing Mark Dayton. Their biggest impact was spending millions of dollars against GOP candidate Tom Emmer, most of which was devoted to personal smear ad campaigns over the course of several months [...]
EDUCATION MINNESOTA NEEDS MORE EDUCATION
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