It’s time we pushed back against the industry premise that education’s purpose is to prepare workers for the job market.
But this is not a foregone conclusion, as we can look for hope in education workers across the nation who flexed their muscles in 2022. They used the strike, even when not legal, to defend the dignity of their work and fight for better salaries, benefits and pensions. Union members in Sacramento and Minneapolis showed the power of unions to win social andfor students who have been most impacted by the pandemic.
Though this linkage is seldom made by activists or pundits, economic issues can’t be separated from attacks on teachers, teaching and schools. Social conservatives have manufactured panic about curricula, countering ideological ground won in Black Lives Matter by fanning fears about “critical race theory.” Legislation rolling back social gains of transgender youth in schools is part of the right’s attacks on reproductive freedom and gender equality.
Inspired by the Caucus of Rank-and-file Educators, who won leadership of the Chicago Teachers Union and, another generation of teacher activists has been building reform caucuses in their unions, aligning themselves with movements for economic and social justice in schools and communities. They made a difference in 2022.
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