Beyond Collective Bargaining; Reigning in union influence over education

The American Spectator: “So long as the NEA and AFT have the dollars and the bodies to push for their cause, they will remain a key (if increasingly less-relevant) influence in education policy. School reformers and those seeking to end the drag of public sector unions on taxpayers altogether need to focus more on mounting the kind of lobbying and campaigning that will end this influence (and overhaul the teaching profession) in the long run. That’s if the bipartisan coalition of centrist Democrats and conservatives that have long fought for reform can hold.”