“I know we’ve done things wrong both as a union movement as well as a teachers’ union …
I know sometimes my members get really upset at me when I say this, but you have to look at yourselves and say, ‘How can you change? How can you do things better? And what we’ve done as a movement as a movement, we focused, we fixated on fairness. We thought, like, when they talk about justice and teachers unions, we would say, ‘That’s the boss’s job to fire somebody. That’s not our job.”
– AFT President Randi Weingarten at the Democratic National Convention (courtesy of Huffington Post), reminding us with this acknowledgement that AFT can continue to be a major lever for real reform in public education.
Eduflack By Patrick R. Riccards 