Is This Supreme Court Decision The End Of Teachers Unions?

Today, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that will reverberate through America's schools for years.

In Janus v. AFSCME, a 5-4 court majority overturned precedent, saying that public sector unions, like those that represent law enforcement, state employees, and, of course, teachers, can no longer collect what are known as agency fees from non-members.

"States and public-sector unions may no longer extract agency fees from nonconsenting employees," wrote Justice Samuel Alito. "The First Amendment is violated when money is taken from nonconsenting employees for a public-sector union; employees must choose to support the union before anything is taken from them."

Until now, in nearly half of states (22), public employees who chose not to join the union still had to pay it , because they're still covered by unions' collective-bargaining agreements. But some workers