Teachers have exclusive advocacy groups in the form of unions, including the National Education Association (NEA), the largest labor group in the country. They are so powerful that they helped keep many schools at least partially closed for a year, despite mounting evidence that with basic preventative measures schools pose little risk of increasing coronavirus spread.
But if the struggling parents who pay their salaries hoped for an organization of their own, they’re out of luck: What might have been the parents’ association was coopted by teachers, too – who injected a “T” and turned it into the PTA.
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