Education union boss book sleaze might mean the end of corrupt teacher-union power

Teachers unions are a bane on American education — including on educators themselves — and a probe of union boss Randi Weingarten might be the straw that breaks the corrupt camel’s back.The House Committee on Education and Workforce is looking hard at American Federation of Teachers boss Weingarten’s use of union funds to produce her recent book, “Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy.”Under Reps.Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) and Rick Allen (R-Ga.), the committee is following up on Post reporting on dubious transactions uncovered by the Freedom Foundation that amount to hundreds of thousands of AFT dollars spent to help produce the bookOf course, that’s just a fraction of how union higherups profit from members’ dues: Weingarten’s pay is now $470,000 a year, not to mention ample perks.Maybe she’s worth it — to the union itself, at least: She’s been a Democratic Party powerbroker for decades, using that influence to protect the power of the AFT and its larger ally, the National Education Association.It’s damning that both unions now push a hard-left agenda, complete with pronoun lunacy and other gender extremism, as well as Israel-bashing and endless Trump derangement — all of it aimed not merely at society as a whole, but at the kids they’re supposed to serve in the schools.The unions have dominated national K-12 public schooling ever since President Jimmy Carter created the Education Department as their tool in 1977, paying them off for key assistance in winning the White House.The decades since have seen a massive decline in quality schooling, as union-friendly “experts” waged war on any and all measures of teacher or school effectiveness.The unions only want to maximize the number of dues-paying members; anything that singles out bad teachers or failed schools is a threat to that goal — as are good schools whose educators aren’t unionized.Despite decades of pretending otherwise, the unions don’t ...