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The union has killed or hijacked nearly every reform bill that has popped up in the legislature. In 2010 it even sank a bill to let high school teachers volunteer to be evaluated by students. “Nobody would see [the evaluation] except the teacher, and CTA fought it tooth and nail. They really were of the opinion that we run the place. . . . Their basic argument was that its the nose underneath the camels tent. So you cant do anything, because once you do something,” the lid on reform is “lifted. So they just kill it.”
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via The Weekend Interview with Gloria Romero: The Trials of a Democratic Reformer – WSJ.com.