Public Education: Stop the Attacks and Fund Quality Education for All
by teacherken
Sun Oct 17, 2010 at 03:59:17 AM PDT
That is the title of this Convention Resolution of the United Electrical Workers which was adopted at their September 2009 Convention and it holds until 2011.
It begins as follows:
One of the first demands of early labor organizations was universal quality education. At a time when only the rich could attend decent schools, labor leaders saw that access to publicly-funded schools was the only way that the working class and the poor could achieve basic literacy skills. Labor leaders knew that education was tied to the ability to organize and exercise political power.
Note in particular in that last sentence that education was tied to the ability to organize and exercise political power. At a time when teachers' unions, among the last large major unions, a
