Union Influence in School Re-openings
07 May 2021
Jonathan Butcher, the Will Skillman Fellow in Education at The Heritage Foundation, discusses the stark contrast in school re-openings where union strongholds do and don't exist, and how school choice could play a bigger role in giving options to families held hostage by political partisanship rather than scientific evidence.
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