Teachers should lead reform of our schools  A new movement,
Teachers United, hopes to transcend the sterile, labor-versus-
management model of our education debate. Here's how to get
beyond "the labor mentality" in public schools. Chris Eide:
empowering teachers.  Chris Eide: empowering teachers. League of
Education Voters  I would like to present a look inside the
teaching core that we have in Seattle, with a spotlight on a
different breed of teacher that exists in schools. I would also
like to take a look inside our teachers' union, its structure,
the narrative that  dictates its actions, and how that different
breed of teacher is beginning to demand a different breed of
labor leader.  Let's start with a look at the union movement and
the teaching profession. “After the post office,” former
Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander said, “schools are the
most unionized activity in America.” But it wasn’t always that
way. Our two largest teacher unions are the National Education
Association (NEA) and the America