This Week In Education: Update: So DFER Is Liberal & Pro-Union Now? and pigs fly

This Week In Education: Update: So DFER Is Liberal & Pro-Union Now?

Update: So DFER Is Liberal & Pro-Union Now?

The Obama administration and many school reform organizations and talking heads were noticably AWOL during the Wisconsin decertification debate last winter, or appeared on the scene only belatedly to offer their support for collective bargaining rights. So it was interesting to hear DFER's Joe Williams express what sounded like pretty strong concerns about the linkages between reform and anti-unionism in Claudio Sanchez' NPR piece last night: "The notion that education reform could get wrapped up so closely with attempts