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Tea Party activist Bob Guzzardi reports that the Pennsylvania State Senate is preparing to unveil, tomorrow, a revolutionary education reform package that could very well make the recent shrieking in Wisconsin by the special-interest child haters sound like whispers. Among the reforms that Bob says will be addressed in a series of bills will be: --Empowering school districts to furlough teachers if the economic conditions should warrant it -- Allowing districts to suspend non-essential reports to the state Department of Education in years state education funding declines -- Requiring a two-thirds vote by school boards to raise property taxes --Allowing...

Let’s start at the beginning: Who is Steve Lerner? Steve Lerner is a union organizer best known as the architect of the remarkable Justice for Janitors campaign. He’s considered one of the smartest organizers, if not the smartest organizer, working in the labor movement right now. A month or two ago, when I began asking around for forward-looking labor thinkers who could give me some ideas for where labor should go after Wisconsin, his was the first name I was given — even though he’s no longer actually employed by his union. There was a good reason for that. At...