When I read of a complaint or a threatened lawsuit by the AFT or another union against the DISD or another local school district, I automatically side with the school district. Maybe it’s because I don’t take the time to study the facts of the particular case, so I don’t know if — one chance out of a hundred, say — the union may be right. Or maybe it is because even our relatively weak Dallas unions have a record of defending incompetence to their last breath. In the August 31 edition of The New Yorker, Steven Brill shows what happens when union intransigence is combined with political power.
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