NWPE provides a safe, open forum for a respectful exchange of ideas and opinion regarding education — the arena intended to be the free marketplace of ideas.  All educators are encouraged to engage in the debate over what is best for our students.  

This webpage includes the following sections:  

1) Unionism in Public Education: Issues & Options 
2) NWPE Position Statements on Education Issues 
3) NWPE Editorials/News Releases
4) NWPE Issue Papers

Union Issues and Options (Click here.)

NWPE Position Statements on Education Issues 

• Idaho High School Redesign Proposal (posted 7.24.06)
• Statement on HB 1068 Eliminating Norm Referenced Tests
• NWPE Endorses Referendum 55 on Charter Schools
• 2004 WASL Report to Senate Education Committee
• 2002-2003 Educational Issues Survey Report 
• 2002 "Bully Bill" Report to Legislature

NWPE Editorials and News Releases

• Teacher First Amendment Rights Obstructed by Union Bill (posted 4.9.07)
• Compulsory Unionism and Worker Freedom (posted 4.8.07)
• Teacher AFL-CIO Alliance Unprofessional (posted 4.6.07)
• Teacher Choice Improves Schools (posted 4.2.07)
• Teacher Union Officials Withhold Information (posted 4.2.07)
• Unions Should Ask for Money, (posted 1.5.07)
• Not that easy to opt of our union politics (posted 10.17.06)
• NEA Pushing Homosexual Agenda (posted 7.26.06)
• The Truth About Teacher Union Spending (posted 1.25.06)
• Nonunion Associations Reflect Change for Teachers (posted 12.1.05)
• Defending Idaho Voluntary Contribution Act
• Teachers Discard WEA for Local Only Bargaining Unit
• NWPE Meets with US Dept. of Education Secretary Spellings
• Non-union professional associations reflect teachers' true priorities
• NWPE Contributes to National Focus Panel on Independent Professional Educators Organizations
  NWPE Scholarships & Mini-Grants:  Education Money Spurned by Union
• Alternatives Exist to Idaho Teachers Union
• Romance with WASL ill-fated
• State Officials Multiply Misery Inflicted by WASL
• Fair Representation & Legal Service Desired—Not Mandatory Monopoly Bargaining
• NWPE Responds to Fears over Charter Schools
• Student Safety Top Concern
• Right to Work is Good for Idaho Educators
• Just Whom Would a Teachers' Strike Benefit?
  

Issue Papers

• Rebuttal to WEA Charges Against NWPE 2002
• Rebuttal to WEA Charges Against NWPE 2003
• Teaching the Reason for the Season (legal incorporation of Christmas/religious content into classroom without mixing church and state) 
       Related article, "Free to Pray," in Orange County Register