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This profile is one of 51 state profiles accompanying Fordham’s report, A Crowded Table: Teacher Union Strength in 2026, which updates Fordham’s 2012 rankings of state teacher union strength. Washington is among the nation’s “strong” teacher union states. Relative to their counterparts in other states, they exhibit the most strength in Perceived Influence (5th), followed by Resources and Membership (7th), Involvement in Politics (12th), Policy Wins and Losses (16th), and Labor and Bargaining Read More

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The Fordham Institute recently published a comprehensive study comparing the power of teacher unions across all 50 states. The report’s authors—Melissa Arnold Lyon, Sandy Frost Waldron, and Rebecca Jacobsen—compiled data on 59 indicators that capture unions’ resources, political involvement, policy wins and losses, and perceived influence, as well as the extent to which state labor and bargaining laws empower them. One can quibble with some of the methodology, of course. The indicators Read More

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This profile is one of 51 state profiles accompanying Fordham’s report, A Crowded Table: Teacher Union Strength in 2026, which updates Fordham’s 2012 rankings of state teacher union strength. Texas has the nation’s sixth-weakest teacher unions. Relative to their counterparts in other states, they exhibit the most strength in Policy Wins and Losses (30th), followed by Involvement in Politics (31st), Perceived Influence (44th), Resources and Membership (46th), and Labor and Bargaining Policies ( Read More

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News stories featured in Gadfly Bites may require a paid subscription to read in full. You have been warned. Far less to cover today after Wednesday’s gargantuan catch-up post, and all three of these are follow-ups from previous stories. First is our own Chad Aldis with his sassy take on that Network for Public Education report that gave Ohio an F grade for the mere existence of laws supportive of charter and private schools. “It’s not a paper with strong analytics,” he tells State Affairs Read More

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This profile is one of 51 state profiles accompanying Fordham’s report, A Crowded Table: Teacher Union Strength in 2026, which updates Fordham’s 2012 rankings of state teacher union strength. Delaware is among the nation’s “average” teacher unions in terms of strength. Relative to their counterparts in other states, they exhibit the most strength in Involvement in Politics (16th), followed by Perceived Influence (18th), Resources and Membership (19th), Policy Wins and Losses (21st), and Labor Read More

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{"a":{"_":"Oregon‘s Teacher Union Strength Profile ","href":"/oregons-teacher-union-strength-profile","hreflang":"en"}}

This profile is one of 51 state profiles accompanying Fordham’s report, A Crowded Table: Teacher Union Strength in 2026, which updates Fordham’s 2012 rankings of state teacher union strength. Oregon has the nation’s sixth-strongest teacher unions. Relative to their counterparts in other states, they exhibit the most strength in Perceived Influence (3rd), followed by Resources and Membership (6th), Involvement in Politics (9th), Labor and Bargaining Policies (12th), and Policy Wins and Losses ( Read More

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{"a":{"_":"Idaho‘s Teacher Union Strength Profile ","href":"/idahos-teacher-union-strength-profile","hreflang":"en"}}

This profile is one of 51 state profiles accompanying Fordham’s report, A Crowded Table: Teacher Union Strength in 2026, which updates Fordham’s 2012 rankings of state teacher union strength. Idaho is among the nation’s “weak” teacher unions in terms of strength. Relative to their counterparts in other states, they exhibit the most strength in Resources and Membership and Labor and Bargaining Policies (both 31st), followed by Perceived Influence (39th), Involvement in Politics (42nd), and Read More

56 years ago

{"a":{"_":"Rhode Island‘s Teacher Union Strength Profile ","href":"/rhode-islands-teacher-union-strength-profile","hreflang":"en"}}

This profile is one of 51 state profiles accompanying Fordham’s report, A Crowded Table: Teacher Union Strength in 2026, which updates Fordham’s 2012 rankings of state teacher union strength. Rhode Island has the nation’s eighth-strongest teacher unions. Relative to their counterparts in other states, they exhibit the most strength in Perceived Influence (4th), followed by Policy Wins and Losses (13th), Resources and Membership and Labor and Bargaining Policies (both 14th), and Involvement in Read More

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Curriculum Associates CEO Kelly Sia recently defended her company’s flagship i-Ready platform to Fordham readers. The program, used by millions of students, has come under fire from teachers, parents, and students as part of an ed-tech backlash sweeping the nation. To set the record straight, Sia stated that Curriculum Associates “welcome[s] honest scrutiny of our research.” She then pointed to a large correlational study out of Georgia State University that evaluated i-Ready use in one large Read More

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