Wind Of Change?

Important op-ed in the WaPo from the head of the teachers’ union in D.C.

The Washington Teachers’ Union supports reform-oriented policies and practices whose outcomes will produce positive results: specifically, improved and sustained student achievement and improved working conditions for teachers. Some say that the union contract presents a barrier to educational reform in the District. As a union, we are willing to assess those issues and be flexible where needed without buying into union-busting. As a union, we must ensure that we are part of the solution and not an embedded part of the problem.