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Friday, October 28, 2011

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Embedded Jonathan Alter equates unions with T-Party

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Embedded Jonathan Alter equates unions with T-Party:

Embedded Jonathan Alter equates unions with T-Party

After reading Jonathan Alter's latest diatribe against teacher unions ("Tea Party and Teachers Union Make Strange Brew"), I can only wonder who at Duncan's D.O.E. is feeding Alter his lines. Writing for Bloomberg News, Alter somehow equates the NEA's opposition to NCLB test-and-punish accountability standards with the T-Party's defense of states rights and its call to do away with the Dept. of