Once upon a time, Hillary Clinton championed children and wanted to right many of the wrongs found in public education. In 1993, she talked about holding teachers accountable for their work. While never an advocate of education vouchers, she did endorse one kind of school choice: At the National Education Association (NEA) convention in 1999, she said, “I . . . hope that you will continue to stand behind the charter-school/public-school movement, because I believe that parents do deserve greater choice within the public-school system to meet the unique needs of their children.” In 2001, along with Ted Kennedy, she backed George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act.
But now, with many of the reforms that Clinton once embraced having taken hold, the teachers’ unions realize that their empire is threatened and are battling to maintain their power. So Hillary has become an unabashed unionista.
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