Where Teacher Unions Are Strong, Student Literacy Is Weak

Study Finds Blue States With Strong Teacher Unions Have Lower Reading Scores

"Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina and Indiana, all Republican-leaning states with weak unions, were among the states with the best literacy outcomes."

Strong Teachers’ Unions Linked to Weak Student Literacy Levels

Strong Teachers’ Unions Linked to Weak Student Literacy Levels States with strong teachers’ unions are the least likely to adopt policies that improve early-literacy outcomes, Progressive Policy Institute Education Policy Director Rachel Canter explains, reporting the results of the Institute’s analysis. “Powerful teachers’ unions are an obstacle to reform. But Mississippi’s dramatic breakthrough proves that evidence-based literacy can succeed a…

SURPRISE! Study Finds Blue States With the Strongest Teacher Unions Also Have the Lowest Reading Scores * The Gateway Pundit * by Mike LaChance

Liberals would have you believe that strong teacher unions equate with strong schools and solid results, but a new study found the exact opposite.

Where Teacher Unions Are Strong, Student Literacy Is Weak

Blue States With Strong Teachers’ Unions Are Terrible at Literacy Reforms

(Zero Hedge)—A 2026 analysis from the Progressive Policy Institute found a strong negative correlation between the political power of state teachers’ unions and states’ adoption of evidence-based early literacy policies. PPI Director of Education Policy Rachel Canter conducted the analysis, comparing union-strength rankings from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute against literacy-policy data from the ExcelinEd […]

Reading the Writing on the Wall: States with Stronger Teachers’ Unions See Lower Literacy Scores

A Progressive Policy Institute analysis found that states with stronger teachers’ unions were disproportionately represented among those with weaker early-literacy policies and reading performance, although ... The post Reading the Writing on the Wall: States with Stronger Teachers’ Unions See Lower Literacy Scores first appeared on [your]NEWS.