Students Over Unions

Nick Kristof:

The most important civil rights battleground today is education, and, likewise, the most crucial struggle against poverty is the one fought in schools.

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

That's why school reform is so critical. This is an issue of equality, opportunity and national conscience. It's not just about education, but about poverty and justice -- and while the Chicago teachers' union claims to be striking on behalf of students, I don't see it.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at September 14, 2012 1:45 AM
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