An interview with Lily Eskelsen García, who will take office next week as president of the National Education Association, breaking ground as the first Latina to head the nation’s largest union. She comments about her plans to bring more clout to the teachers’ union, the reformers’ “toxic obsession with standardized testing,” the ruling of a California court against teachers tenure, and the crisis of children refugees at the border.
Guest: Lily Eskelsen García, President of the National Education Association, Member of the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, San Francisco, CA, http://www.nea.org
Photo: NEA via facebook
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