It’s no surprise that the teachers’ unions have many legislative bodies in their pockets, but they usually aren’t as brazen as this. At a New York City Council hearing last week on a resolution related to charter schools, the United Federation of Teachers actually wrote out questions for the council members to ask and gave them directly to the members:

The TelePrompTer-like scripts were quietly hand-delivered to sympathetic members by a union rep during the hearing and contained tough, leading questions for Department of Education officials and softball inquiries for a United Federation of Teachers official.