Court Hears Case on Use of Fees by Teachers’ Union
The U.S. Supreme Court is contemplating the difference between saying yes and not saying no.
That distinction came up repeatedly in arguments last week in a case testing the constitutionality of a Washington state law that requires nonunion teachers to “affirmatively consent,” or opt in, before a teachers’ union may spend money from “agency fees” on political campaigns and similar activism.
Five nonunion teachers and the state of Washington sued the Washington Education Association, the state’s largest teachers’ union, for allegedly violating the state law, resulting in two appeals that were consolidated by the high court, Davenport v. Washington Education Association and Washington v. Washington Education Association (Case...
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