IEA Board of Directors discuss sell-out plans. Issue #6: Taxing retirement benefits.
It has been a long hard slog for rank-and-file IEA members these past six years.
It has been tough on us having the leadership of IEA President Ken Swanson, VP Bob Blades and Secretary Cinda Klickna, along with former Executive Director and now senior adviser to Arne Duncan, Jo Anderson and his successor as IEA Director, Audrey Soglin.
This has been a leadership of Eeyores, with no stomach for the fight necessary to keep teacher and union rights.
- We were among the few state delegations at the last RA to oppose the resolution condemning Race to the Top.
- Early on, Swanson wrote a glowing description of DC schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, describing her as a “change agent.”
That should have been a red flag