Two speeches by Linda Darling-Hammond.
For those of us struggling within our teacher unions, particularly here in Illinois, to try to get them to stand and fight to defend our hard-won bargaining rights and for good education policy, this has been a tough year.
Senate Bill 7, which essentially took away the right to strike in Chicago and our tenure and seniority rights throughout the state, was actually championed by our union leadership.
After a massive campaign in which tens of thousands of public service workers told their state political leaders to oppose any change in employee pensions, the state union leadership appears ready to cave on that as well.
From the outside, Republican governors and legislatures are making a frontal assault on teacher unions. From