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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Haisman and Rosenthal. « Fred Klonsky

Haisman and Rosenthal. « Fred Klonsky:


Haisman and Rosenthal.

Haisman and Rosenthal.
No. It’s not a law firm.
Back in the day, Bob Haisman was President of the IEA. He ran for IEA President as something of an outsider and won.
Then we butted heads over the issue of a merger of the two national teacher unions: The NEA and the AFT.
I was for it. Haisman and the IEA leadership led the charge against it.
Haisman won that fight.
In fact, I think I may have been the only IEA delegate to the NEA RA that year that voted for merger. And it lost