Read John Stossel’s account of the school choice wars.

There are few political powers more ruthless, more vicious than the teacher’s unions. These are nothing but pure power brokers who hide behind innocent children and hard-working teachers to advance their agenda. In a way, they remind me of Bush’s supporters — his few remaining supporters — who insist that any disagreement with their agenda is not “supporting the troops”. Big Education insists that any attempt to change our broken education system is “anti-education”, “anti-teacher” or “anti-children”.

We are not talking about a bunch of teachers sitting around singing Kumbaya. We are talking about one of the most powerful and ruthless special interests in the nation. They have long had the gloves off when it comes to attacking their political opponents. It’s time we took the gloves off too.