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Union-Run Schools

Posted on: March 17th, 2010

The American Spectator   Union-Run Schools   To prevent further movement toward charter schools, teachers' unions are starting to take direct control of public schools -- which for once might give them a sense of where the problem lies.   RiShawn Biddle   3.16.10   Even among the oft-intransigent locals that make up the American Federation of Teachers, United Teachers Los Angeles is renowned for its bellicose opposition to any kind of school reform. Notorious for its successful battles against efforts by former L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan and one of his successors, Antonio Villaraigosa, to overhaul the infamously laggard Los Angeles Unified School District, United Teachers behaved in typical form last August when the nation's second-largest school district finally gave in to school reformers and agreed to a plan that included spinning off 12 of its worst-performing schools into private hands and creating 24 new schools to be run by a hodgepodge of operators. Besides filing a lawsuit against the district to prevent the reform measure fr... ...[more]