That’s what Eva Moskowitz told me the other day, by way of explaining her liberal credentials going way back. She’s an interesting case — a traditional New York City liberal who is utterly hated by the teacher’s union because she wants to improve the city’s school system. First, she had the temerity to expose the union contract in hearings when she was on the New York City Council; now she has the temerity to run a successful charter school network in Harlem. She’s a central figure in the new documentary The Lottery that, among other things, exposes the ACORN rent-a-mobs that the union imports to protest all things Moskowitz. Here’s the first day of school at one of her schools last fall. Charming, no? She’s part of a wide-ranging revolt against the teacher’s union that encompasses not only fiscal conservative like Chris Christie, but reformist liberals like herself. All of this is a long-winded way of saying I wrote about her and The Lottery today.
‘My grandmother would turn over in her grave if she knew I was being interviewed by your publication.’
by Rich Lowry
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Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.
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