(AP Photo/Gerry Broome) Mark Jewell, president of the North Carolina Association of Educators, protests at the General Assembly in Raleigh, North Carolina, on May 16, 2018. B y rights, the nation’s teachers should be reeling this summer from a potentially crippling one-two punch. The Supreme Court dealt teachers the first blow on June 27 with its Janus v. AFSCME ruling, which could drastically shrink the budgets of all public employee unions, including the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association. The next day, several far-right groups launched a multimillion-dollar campaign to urge teachers to ditch their unions, sending thousands of emails directly to schools. But instead of crumpling, teachers are punching back hard. Unprecedented numbers of educators are running for public office . Teachers union membership is going up, not down. And the anti-union emails blasted to teachers by such conservative groups as the Mackinac Center for Public Policy appear...
