On tonight's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, John Merrow interviews George Parker, president of the Washington Teachers Union. Here's a teaser from the transcript:
GEORGE PARKER: Prior to charter schools, for the most part, I think that as a union we could relax a little bit, because for the most part we were the only kid on the block.????And you pretty much had to come to us.????Unless you could afford to send your child to a private school or et cetera, you had no other choices.
