Rightwing groups allied with the Republican Party blindly hate teacher unions. In the name of “free enterprise,” individual choice, and school improvement, they are trying to destroy teacher unions in the United States. After the Supreme Court deadlocked four-to-four last year, keeping in place a federal court decision in requiring California teachers to pay union or agency fees for negotiating, pension, grievance, and benefit services, regardless of whether they wanted to be members, one of the rightwing groups, the Center for Individual Rights (CIR), immediately enlisted new plaintiffs and launched another legal challenge.