If you don’t know her yet, please meet Eva Moskowitz, an educational-reform champion who runs New York City’s largest charter network. As Moskowitz says in the beginning of the interview below with Nick Gillespie of Reason, she is a liberal. However, in her case, that also makes her a committed fighter for the interests of low-income Americans and, in particular, low-income American kids. She’s sacrificed her political career in order to free students from poorly performing schools. Why the costs? Because the main opponents of what she is trying to achieve are unions.

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Thanks to people like Eva Moskowitz who are willing to take on the powerful unions and their sidekicks in state and local governments, things are changing all over the U.S. I wrote about charter schools in Philadelphia recently, but that’s not the only place: Chicago, New Jersey, and other governments are all working on education reforms. In Arizona, for instance, the new governor, Doug Ducey, is very committed to school choice and ran on the issue. I’m curious to see what happens in the state now that he’s in charge.

The whole thing is here.