The state of the (teachers') union

Michelle Rhee is fond of telling Oprah, Newsweek and most of the American public that teachers’ unions care only about protecting bad teachers at the expense of student learning.

So it’s not surprising that most of the statements that Randi Weingarten, president of the nationl teachers’ union American Federation of Teachers, makes are pretty fiery. The word “scapegoating” was not absent from Weingarten’s lips after Rhee’s new nonprofit blamed teachers for the failing public education system.