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Thursday, May 16, 2013

Ed Notes Online: Critic Endorses CORE and Lewis in CTU Elections While Trashing AFT and Randi-like Opposition

Ed Notes Online: Critic Endorses CORE and Lewis in CTU Elections While Trashing AFT and Randi-like Opposition:


Critic Endorses CORE and Lewis in CTU Elections While Trashing AFT and Randi-like Opposition

It's called the inside game - the American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten has worked it well while signing away teachers rights and jobs throughout the recent years of massive education privatization....CORE came to power doing the exact opposite - to fight the business - political establishment to stop school closings and its massive attack on teachers' union rights.    
The current AFT and old UPC deals were only a slow, painful downward slide for unions.. Jim Vail, Second City Teacher
The caucus running against CORE is frighteningly Unity Caucus like. Read
Jim Vail who has been an internal critic inside CORE and in fact is not running with them in this election. So his endorsement and comments, both admiring and critical, are worth considering, especially in relation to the Randi Weingarten-like crew running against Karen Lewis. Vail picks them apart with a scalpel.

If you read some of the Unity Caucus trolls' comments on the MORE, ICE and Ed Notes blogs you will see how