Michelle Rhee's organization StudentsLast is not just anti-teacher union. It's anti-collective bargaining more broadly. The organization has contributed $500,000 against Michigan's Proposal 2, which would make the right to collective bargaining a part of the state constitution.
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It's hardly surprising that a school full of the douchiest basketball fans in the world like Duke would also lead the nation in grade inflation. I mean, when you have.
In a comment to Scott's post yesterday, Matt Yglesias said this about evaluation of the Chicago teachers. My point about unions favoring job security for their members per se is.
Rahm Emanuel is outraged. He thought he made a deal with Karen Lewis, head of the Chicago Teachers' Union, to end the teachers strike. But see, Rahm doesn't understand very much about unions. In a democratic union, the kind of union supposedly liberal commentators say...
Katie Billotte rightfully exposes the decline of the liberal arts in higher education as an important facet of the conservative war on anything institution in this country that might create.
1. Sarah Jaffe on the liberal pundits, including Nocera and Kristof at the Times, repeating right-wing talking points about unions. 2. Dave Zirin compares the CTU strike to the plutocrat.
Corey Robin has a great post about why so many liberals hate public school teachers and don't support their labor actions. Corey grew up in a wealthy New York suburb where he had great teachers. Nonetheless, In my childhood world, grown ups basically saw teachers...
Charles Lane pretends to care about the children in public schools which he would never send his kids.
Paul Ryan expresses solidarity with Rahm Emanuel in his efforts to hand the keys to the Chicago schools over to the education capitalists who funded his campaign, destroy the teachers'.
This could not depress me more. Molly Ball's piece at the Atlantic portrays Michelle Rhee as getting close to setting the education agenda for the Democratic Party: Yet there are signs that Rhee's persona non grata status in her party is beginning to wane --...
Shorter a lot of "progressives" today: "I usually support unions, but these Chicago teachers [insert Republican talking point about unions.]" People are complaining--these teachers are highly paid, how dare they.
Tomorrow morning, the Chicago teachers are going on strike. This is a power struggle between the union-busting mayor and Democratic National Convention speaker Rahm Emanuel and the teachers who are.