Larry Hogan stands up for students, which means standing up to teacher unions

Public schools in the Washington, D.C., suburbs (and in Baltimore) have been closed since March 2020, and the teachers unions want to keep them closed fully or partially through the end of this school year and into the next.

When Fairfax County’s union takes a position against full in-person schooling even next school year, even after every single teacher has been vaccinated, you could consider that to be just a tough negotiating tactic. But what they’re threatening is immense harm to students and parents, which makes it hard to view the union as acting in good faith.