Big Labor Politicos Don’t Speak for Educators

Teacher Candidates Run Against NEA-Boss Platform and Win, page 5.

In the spring of 2018, Oklahoma was one of a number of states in which government union bigwigs helped incite some teachers to engage in illegal strikes
that shut down government schools. It’ s a fact: Americans overwhelmingly support higher pay for hardworking and effective teachers, and when necessary in order to fill particular teaching positions
with qualified individuals.

Of course, these are not the aims of teacher union bosses and the other political radicals who collaborated with them to orchestrate last year’s school strikes.

Oklahoma state Reps.-elect Toni Hasenbeck and Kelly Albright and state Sen.-elect David Bullard are cases in point. Ms. Hasenbeck, a middle school teacher in Comanche County, opposed Oklahoma’s Big Labor-backed 2018 tax increase and rejected OEA officials’ demand for a moratorium on public charter schools, which unlike traditional government schools are overwhelmingly union-free.

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