Teachers Unions in the Forefront of Education Reform

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by Randi Weingarten

Disparaging our children's teachers and blaming teachers unions won't improve public education.

While, sadly, bashing unions is the specialty and mission of the Center for Union Facts, as it demonstrated in its AOL News opinion piece last week ("Will Teachers Unions Bend to Education Reform?"), the American Federation of Teachers prefers to focus on concrete solutions that will improve the current state of the American public education system.

Do we have to makes changes? Absolutely. But improving schools requires building on what works and replicating it. There are countless success stories in public schools that rarely, if ever, get highlighted in articles or documentaries. Building on what works means taking best practices from around the country and other nations that outperform us, and promoting promising innovative reforms -- all to help prepare every child, in every public school, for life, college and a career in today's global knowledge economy.

The Center for Union Facts doesn't like unions. That's their right, but they can't play fast and loose with the facts. So let's look at where they say the AFT has blocked progress.

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1. k and r

Thanks for posting this.

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2. You are very welcome