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A tool to rebuild our teachers' unions | SocialistWorker.org

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A tool to rebuild our teachers' unions

Rhode Island teacher Brian Chidester reviews a new book that documents the assault on public education--and the struggle of teachers to resist it.
Chicago teachers march with supporters during their strike to defend quality public schoolsChicago teachers march with supporters during their strike to defend quality public schools
"IT'S IMPORTANT to say, loudly, that the potential of teachers' unions is not being realized and that they need to be transformed."
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten must have missed that line when she tweeted: "Gr8 review of gr8 book."@AnthonyCody: Lois Weiner's new book: The Future of Our Schools; Teacher Unions & Social Justice." Weingarten is the inheritor and enthusiastic promoter of the model of top-down business unionism that has made teachers' unions into willing collaborators with their enemies.
But Weingarten was right about Lois Weiner's The Future of Our Schools: Teachers