HIDDEN TIES LINK RANDI'S REGIMENTS: UNIONS FUND ANTI-MAYORAL-CONTROL GROUPS

DFER's Joe Williams with a great quote in an article on how the teachers' unions cleverly fund other advocacy groups to advance their agenda:

Community groups aren't the only outsiders receiving money from the UFT and its state affiliate.

The union-backed Working Families Party received $1 million from New York State United Teachers for a media campaign last year. New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, a pro-union think tank and advocacy group, received $190,000.

"I would challenge anyone in New York to find when they [ACORN, the Working Families Party, and the Alliance for Quality Education] have opposed anything on the union's agenda," said Joe Williams, executive director of Democrats for Education Reform, an advocacy group funded by proponents of charter schools.

"One of the ways the unions benefits is they effectively make it sound like there is a lot of support for their agenda."

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HIDDEN TIES LINK RANDI'S REGIMENTS

UNIONS FUND ANTI-MAYORAL-CONTROL GROUPS

 

By CHUCK BENNETT, NY Post

April 27, 2009

www.nypost.com/seven/04272009/news/regionalnews/hidden_ties_link_randis_regiments_166429.htm

Next week, a coalition of advocacy groups will bus an army of parents into Albany for a "lobby day" against mayoral control of the city's schools -- a prime example of how Randi Weingarten's teachers' union shapes public perception and policy behind the scenes.