Students are slowly being liberated from teacher unions

The nation’s largest teachers’ union, the National Education Association (NEA), is reeling right now. Six months ago, the Supreme Court ruled that government workers, including public school teachers, can’t be forced to pay union fees in the case Janus v. AFCSME. Since then, the organization has lost 17,000 members.
Labor economists predict teachers unions could lose up to a third of their total membership in the coming years. But this won’t be a blow to public schools, a