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Edspresso's Identity Problem

April 9, 2007 02:09 PM

The last time I thought much about Edspresso, the Walton Family Foundation's education blog, was when the bloggers there claimed it's not an anti-union blog. No, seriously, that's what they said.

But the latest issue of "School Choice Activist," Edspresso's hard-copy sister publication, got me thinking about Edspresso again.  The Activist, like Edspresso, is put out by the Walton-backed Alliance for School Choice, and the current issue includes this nugget:

"Perhaps the best testament to Edspresso's reach is the interest and ire regularly expressed by the education reform movement's opposition: the teacher unions."

So, which is it?  Are Edspresso and parent company, Wal-Mart, anti-union?  Do they support unions and support education reform but belive unions are opposed to reform?  Wow!  Talk about cognitive dissonance. 

You have to love that logic: If the unions hate us we must be doing something right.  But we're not anti-union.

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