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Teachers unions wage war on their competition: Private schools

By Washington Examiner
Published August 7, 2020 4:00am ET
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Teachers unions wage war on their competition: Private schools
Keagan Nedrow, left, and Reed Nedrow, bottom right, stand with their mother, Tara Nedrow, right, who teaches history at Union High School, and other teachers, during a teacher rally against low school funding at the state Capitol Oklahoma City, Monday, April 2, 2018. | (Sue Ogrocki/AP)

Thousands of teachers across this country see their work as not a mere occupation, but as a calling.

Teachers unions are another matter. They are nakedly transactional political entities. Their purpose is to increase their own political power, which is already fearsome, and that goal involves the crushing of rivals.

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