This short video gets to the heart of how teacher unions exercise power: by aggressively opposing any reforms to the education system. Consider your home state. A proposed reform can be as sweeping as school choice, or as simple as thoroughly evaluating teacher performance, and teacher unions immediately come out swinging. No one knows this better than state legislators. The tiniest nudge to the education status quo means immediate mobilization of the union lobbying machine to silence lawmakers who dared to act on behalf of students, and bully them back into line with the (very real) threat of being driven out of office.
This is the reality everywhere teacher unions are allowed the tiniest foothold in education.
Unelected, unaccountable teacher unions continue to do incalculable damage to education in the United States. Until they are stripped of their ability to weaponize public resources against the taxpayers, every attempt at reforming American schools will face the same hostility.
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