Over the years, we’ve shown the relationship, or the uniformity, between unions and the Communist Party. Legal Insurrection has the story of how the Midwest Marxism Conference we chock full of teachers. Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Jesse Sharkey, who spoke at one of the breakout sessions, was just one of the hundreds of attendees, many of them teachers, there to strategize about the next phases of the partnership between Chicago Socialists and the Chicago Teachers Union. Of course, all recording was strictly verboten unless you had been preapproved by the Chicago Socialists. The event kicked off with Becca Barnes’s keynote speech. Barnes, [...]
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A Tale of two Stories: Teachers Unions Fights for Failed DC School System
Michelle Rhee, the Chancellor of the Washington DC school system has spent the last several years creating quite a storm. Hired by Mayor Adrian Fenty, she’s cut costs, closed crumbling schools, and worse yet, she has acted to terminate failed teachers. Considering that the DCPS spends more money per pupil than any system in the country, and yet has the worst results, you would think that any effort to improve it would be applauded? Not so much. The Mayor Fenty, was defeated in the Democratic primary by Vincent Gray, the Chairman of the DC Council. Gray will run virtually unopposed [...]
