New Lobbying Groups Attempt To Offer Teachers Union Alternatives

Education Week (9/13, Sawchuk) reports that "new efforts have sprung up purporting to give teachers a say in policy, and their emergence is extending discussions about 'teacher voice' in unexpected ways," including Los Angeles-based NewTLA, a group operating like "a caucus within the city teachers' union," and New York City's Educators 4 Excellence, a group working outside the city's teachers' union. The article also notes Teach Plus in Boston and Center for Teaching Quality in Carrboro, NC, as groups working with educators in several cities.