Obama's Race to the Top: Educational Inequity and Union-Busting, All in One Package

If you are in New York,  California, Minnesota or any number of other states, you have been bombarded in recent months by a well-funded campaign against teachers’ unions, all in the name of grabbing a piece of the $4.3 billion earmarked for education in the American Relief & Recovery Act, aka the stimulus bill. As the deadline for a second round  of competition for the cash approaches on June 1, the battle is intensifying between teachers unions (who represent 25% of America’s sadly depleted labor movement) and an array of corporations bent on squeezing profits out of a hitherto neglected source: school kids.