Jonah’s strike.
Jonah Edelman of Stand for Children.
I warned them.
But they didn’t listen.
Early on I said that Senate Bill 7 would lead to no good end.
Ken Swanson, then President of the IEA, and Audrey Soglin, who still to this day goes around claiming Senate Bill 7 is teacher led reform, pronounced it as a national model.
I said, “no, no, no.”
Senate Bill 7 was the work of Jonah Edelman, his corporate reform group Stand for Children, and all those who wanted to bust teacher unions.
But it was designed and targeted for states like Illinois.
These union busters knew that folks like Scott Walker in Wisconsin and their Tea Party Republican allies in the