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Schoolyard Bullies: How the NEA and AFT Maintain a Stranglehold on Teachers and Politics

POLICY FORUM
Monday, September 30, 2002
12:00 p.m.

Featuring Myron Lieberman, Social Policy and Philosophy Center; Stefan Gleason, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation; and Mark Levin, Landmark Legal Foundation.

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The National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers are currently the major opponents of school choice and other positive education reforms. In this forum, speakers from three organizations battling the teacher unions will discuss the strategic steps necessary to break the stranglehold that the NEA and AFT currently have on teachers and politics. Mark Levin will discuss complaints filed with three government agencies against the NEA for underreporting political expenditures. Myron Lieberman will discuss his new Cato Policy Analysis outlining a proposal for allowing other groups to compete with the NEA and AFT in representing teachers. Stefan Gleason will give an overview of the national legal and legislative battles underway to dismantle the special privileges that the NEA and AFT use to maintain their dominance over teachers and politics.

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