Whereas a victory for Seattle teachers would greatly encourage teachers everywhere, including members of the Port Jefferson Station Teachers Association and the New York State United Teachers, to continue in our increasingly stronger efforts to combat damaging and
abusive public education reforms in our own communities; and
The corporate
education reform industry, riding high off a successful anti-teacher tenure lawsuit in California, is targeting the single most important element of academic freedom and working conditions for
public school teachers and now the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure is saying that his
abusive language about teachers «Wasn't about them.