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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Stopping a runaway train. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Stopping a runaway train. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Stopping a runaway train.

Who knows what goes on behind closed doors?

Certainly not the rank-and-file teachers who will be most affected by what kind of so-called reforms get adopted. The General Assembly is notorious for last-minute deals that rarely work in our favor. So, why should it be different this time?

Going in to this lame duck session the teachers unions’ leadership had two goals.

Like with the runaway train in the movie Unstoppable, they hoped to be Denzel. Perhaps they could keep the