PREA Prez takes a big leap, making a connection between our post on a YouTuber with an admitted "anti-union bias" and Ed Sector.  After having spent a little time over the past week or so dealing with Richard Berman's attacks on teachers, I had organizations like CUF in mind when I wrote about the YouTuber, not Ed Sector.

It's true that certain of Ed Sector's positions, practices and blog posts seem to be at odds with its noble mission statement, (See here, here, here, here, here and elsewhere on our blog.)  But Ed Sector's ability to live up to its mission statement is limited because it can't quite handle its twin roles as advocate and think tank (see Edbizbuzz on this here); it can't see outside the Beltway (our members serve as a great reality check for us); and it must please the funders (as we must please our members).

However -- and this is a big however -- there is a world of difference between Ed Sector and the Center for Union Facts.  CUF has no interest in education for education's sake, hides its funders, and uses an ad campaign based on the weakest of researchiness to try to destroy unions. 

Blurring the differences between the two makes it harder to see CUF for what it really is and harder to get Ed Sector to listen to union members who work in schools every day.