Diane Ravitch Praises Randi Weingarten on Her Blog and All Hell Breaks Loose

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14. i agree. but like randi's publicized 'arrest' after she'd just finished selling out some local

district on contract matters, there's the surface appearance & the hard policy reality underlying it. if the good PR enables randi to do more sell-out deals furthering the actual dismantlement of public schooling under the wire, there's a problem.

fact remains, if the guy couldn't get an answer to his questions, that's a problem with his rep & with the union, not with him.

and fact is, the same caucus has controlled aft since nearly day one. and that tells you something.

and what tells me the most of all is that neither union has mobilized its membership to fight, as united unions (not little local actions) against the biggest threat to their existence since forever. if the membership is not mobilized, given the tools the union has, there's not a chance in hell that the public ever will be.

aft controls elections by controlling nyc, through rigged rules that give uft the preponderance of delegate votes. and nyc is a wasteland of education deform & charters today, that's how 'effective' the uft is.

continuing with such 'leadership' will lead the entire profession into the grave.