Toxic Combination
The GOP is simultaneously emasculating teachers’ unions while adopting the worst parts of their agenda. The result could be devastating
- April 12, 2011 | 12:00 am
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For years, teachers’ unions have claimed that education reformers are mounting a “war on teachers.” Now, in the Midwest and Republican-dominated states across the country, we are witnessing what a war on teachers really looks like. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s nuclear assault on public employees’ collective bargaining and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s overheated claims that teacher pensions are bankrupting the state reveal a Republican Party bent on using its current electoral advantage to permanently cripple unions nationwide.
Yet, at the same time, Republicans in Washington are embracing the worst elements of
