The Odd Couple: Dennis & Wendy
Editor's note: Bridging Differences returns today from its holiday break.
Dear Deborah,
While we were on holiday break, Dennis Van Roekel and Wendy Kopp co-signed an opinion piece in USA Today, setting off a heated controversy.
It was a surprising statement, mainly because of its authors and what they represent. Here was the president of the nation's largest teachers' union, with more than 3 million members, joining in solidarity with the founder of an organization that recruits and assigns several thousand college graduates each year for short-term commitments to teaching jobs (many of them in non-union charter schools). One can only imagine the intense editorial negotiations between the staffs of these two powerful organizations.
