Late last month, presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney delivered an education speech in which he lambasted the policy agenda of teachers union officials. To help make his point, Romney cited a famous remark attributed to the late Al Shanker, former longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers.
In 1985, an editorial in the Meridian (Miss.) Star quoted Shanker: “When schoolchildren start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of schoolchildren.”
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