{"id":14958,"date":"2012-07-05T12:52:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T16:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=14958"},"modified":"2012-07-05T13:15:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T17:15:24","slug":"the-best-news-out-of-the-public-sector-in-some-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/14958\/the-best-news-out-of-the-public-sector-in-some-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best News Out of the Public Sector in Some Time &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; comes from a despondent teachers union of incredible heft. Here&#8217;s how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/education\/story\/2012-06-28\/Teacher-unions-education\/55993750\/1\" target=\"_blank\"><em>USA Today<\/em><\/a> reported it on Tuesday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The National Education Association (NEA) has lost more than 100,000 members since 2010. By 2014, union projections show, it could lose a cumulative total of about 308,000 full-time teachers and other workers, a 16% drop from 2010. Lost dues will shrink NEA&#8217;s budget an estimated $65 million, or 18%.<\/p>\n<p>NEA calls the membership losses &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; and predicts they may be a sign of things to come. &#8220;Things will never go back to the way they were,&#8221; reads its 2012-14 strategic plan, citing changing teacher demographics, attempts by some states to restrict public employee collective bargaining rights and an &#8220;explosion&#8221; in online learning that could sideline flesh-and-blood teachers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Herb Stein&#8217;s famous maxim is that &#8220;If something is unsustainable, it won&#8217;t go on forever.&#8221; It looks like teachers unions are keeping their date with inevitability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; comes from a despondent teachers union of incredible heft. Here&#8217;s how USA Today reported it on Tuesday: The National Education Association (NEA) has lost more than 100,000 members since 2010. By 2014, union projections show, it could lose a cumulative total of about 308,000 full-time teachers and other workers, a 16% drop from 2010. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[911,64,297,3678,3354],"class_list":["post-14958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-big-labor","tag-education","tag-national-education-association","tag-public-sector-workers","tag-teacher-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14958"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14964,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14958\/revisions\/14964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}