Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Teacher Politics

Interesting numbers:
NPR commissioned Ipsos to conduct a nationally representative survey of more than 500 teachers across the country to determine their views on workplace issues.

There is plenty of good stuff if you want to take a deep dive, but I found the responses to this question about political party identification most interesting:
That’s a pretty big swing, but which is cause and which effect? Are unionized teachers more likely to become Democrats, or are Democratic teachers more likely to join a union? Or both?
Do teachers unions act like their D/R split is 42/34, or more like 99/1?

1 comment:

David said...

Thats why I have always had a big problem with the teachers union. If you split the non-dem/gop vote evenly on the unionized teacher side, that's about 30% of the vote that is GOP. Thus, why are 95-98% of the union endorsements go to democrats? Shouldn't it be more like 30%?