Teacher Power: The One Percent Solution
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Numbering more than four million, teachers represent better than one percent of the population of the United States. Given the fact that only about half the people in our nation actually vote, teachers are potentially even more than one percent of the electorate. And national elections are sometimes decided by margins smaller than this. Beyond our votes, teachers are connectors, influential among friends, family and community members.
We have been bulwarks of the nation's middle class, but as with the rest of the 99 percent, things have been tough the past three decade. As the nation's sleeping middle class wakes up to the nightmare the American dream has been turned into, perhaps teachers have a chance to gain some allies as we seek to defend our schools.
What would happen if we used this strength - combined with that of parents, college students and the
