| One of the greatest challenges facing American education today is a fantasy, spun by billionaire-funded "think tanks" and often repeated uncritically by"politicians and pundits, that our schools are failing, that teachers are shirking their responsibilities and that unions are the root of the problem. The truth: education reform must be in the public interest--on behalf of public schools and the children who attend themrather than private interests, furthering "the corporate agenda for public schools, which disregards our voices and attempts to impose a system of winners and losers," to quote the mission statement of a new coalition of teachers and their unions, along with parent, student, religious and community groups. This coalition has set itself the task of nothing less than reclaiming "the promise of public education as our nation's gateway to democracy and racial &economic justice |
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