“Feel like I was hit by a truck with members of my own family driving.”
Comment to my blog this morning.
Advance Illinois, major corporate reformy group, gushes praise for agreement.
Advance Illinois, which represents the Illinois corporate players in school reform, loves the agreement that the three unions agreed to yesterday.
Robin Steans of the group Advance Illinois was at the negotiating table, along with representatives from the state’s three largest teachers unions and the Illinois State Board of Education.
“It is hard to overstate what a huge step in the right direction this is on a whole host of fronts,” said Steans.
Take seniority, she said.
“For layoffs, which have been happening around the state, it’s been last hired,
