How some ed reformers really work
It’s not often that we hear education reformers bragging in public about how they got the better of a teacher’s union. But in the following remarkable video, Jonah Edelman, co-founder and chief executive officer of the Oregon-based nonprofit education reform organization Stand for Children, talks about how he and his organization maneuvered to get education reform legislation passed in Illinois this year, snookering union officials along the way.
The video shows Edelman on a panel that took place at the recent Aspen Institute’s Ideas Festival.He discusses efforts to get Illinois Senate Bill 7 passed, which in its original form sought to severely limit teacher union rights in the state and linked student standardized test scores to teacher evaluation.
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