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AFT Letter Aligning Union with All Candidates

This 'cover you backside' no
matter who gets chosen letter shows how morally
bankrupt union leadership is.


Letter in New York Times


To the Editor:

The three very different candidates David
Brooks (column, Dec. 5) names as possible
choices for secretary of education share a
common denominator — they all have worked with
teacher unions, to great effect.

The educational improvements that have occurred
during Joel I. Klein’s tenure as chancellor of
New York City’s public schools are the result
of hard work and collaboration with the United
Federation of Teachers and the teachers we
represent.

In Chicago, Arne Duncan has partnered with the
local affiliate of the American Federation of
Teachers to restructure struggling schools and
adopt promising innovations.

Linda Darling-Hammond has worked with the
A.F.T. on projects going back decades to
implement lessons from the best research and
real-life experience for the benefit of
students and teachers in America’s classrooms.

We agree that the choice of a secretary of
education is a crucial one. But we disagree
that distance from and disdain for teachers’
unions are positive credentials. Demonizing
teachers’ unions might win favor in certain
quarters, but it won’t do anything to help kids
or advance school improvement.

Randi Weingarten
President
American Federation of Teachers
and United Federation of Teachers


— Randi Weingarten
New York Times
2008-12-13


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