'Don't Hold Us Back'

At LA Weekly, "Los Angeles Charities and Minority Groups Tell United Teachers Los Angeles and LAUSD: 'Don't Hold Us Back'" (via Instapundit).

Ten years ago, most of these people would have been extremely reluctant to call out UTLA.

That would have been seen as anti-union.

But with Los Angeles kids circling the drain (and remember the frightening fact that LAUSD educates one in every eight or nine kids in all of California) and with the union fighting most attempts at change, those days seem over.

At my college, my head hurts sometimes when the union pushes positions that harm students, but you can't get a word in edgewise. After a while, you don't even try. Hopefully the "Don't Hold Us Back" coalition will have an impact.