Politics of Resentment, NEA/AFT Edition

Read Kevin Drum on this. People have some genuinely weird ideas about teacher's unions, who are held to have almost mystical levels of power over the political process along with a spookily powerful malign impacts on the education system. Did you know that, for example, the unions are so powerful that union-skeptical neoliberal education policy wonks have the ears of all three of the leading Democratic candidates for president? Suffice it to say that were Megan's deal wherein liberals get to get literally everything we want on education policy as long as she gets to bust the unions actually on the table, I'd take it. The reason liberals don't take that deal is it isn't actually on the table.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/03/politics-of-resentment-nea-aft-edition/41746/