Bob Peterson (bob.e.peterson@gmail.com), a 5th-grade teacher in the Milwaukee Public Schools, is currently president of the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association. With Michael Charney, he co-edited Transforming Teacher Unions: Fighting for Better Schools and Social Justice (Rethinking Schools, 1999).
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If Teachers Can’t Make Their Unions More Democratic and Social Justice-Minded, Public Ed Is Doomed
Bob Peterson