The League of Education Voters is at it again. This time they’re going after the teachers’ union.
Nick Hanauer, one of the founders of the League of Education Voters (LEV) and a proponent of charter schools has lately decided to take it upon himself to publicly target teachers in general and the teachers’ union specifically in his quest to turn the state of Washington into charter school country staffed by none other than TFA, Inc. teaching temps putting students in front of computers for their online learning courses. As you might recall, just last week Rainier Beach High School said “Thanks but no thanks” to the paternalistic approach that LEV was taking in “helping” the children on the south end of Seattle. That ended with Rainier Beach High School demanding an apology from LEV for basically pushing the organization’s agenda in an extremely bold face manner.
Now Mr. Hanauer has decided to turn it up a notch by trying his best to demonize the teaching profession in our state. To follow is a letter written by Mary Lindquist, the President of the Washington Education Association in
