The Chicago Teachers Union blasted Rahm Emanuel for appearing in a video produced by the right-wing anti-union Michigan-based Education Action Group.
EAG was the group that sent Ben Velderman after my work emails and my personnel file using the Illinois Freedom of Information Act.
EAG’s leader Kyle Olson became a national laughing-stock after he attacked the children’s book, Click Clack Moo, Cows that Type, as class warfare indoctrination.
I posted about the Rahm video several weeks ago.
CTU spokeswoman Stephanie Gadlin described the mayor’s collaboration with the Education Action Group Foundation as odd. “Their new video is little more than right-wing propaganda that contributes nothing to the education debate in our city,” she said.
Kyle Olson, the founder and CEO of the Education Action Group Foundation, said he decided to focus the video on Emanuel’s education agenda, including his support for charter schools, partly because of the vocal opposition those efforts elicited from the union. The video’s title, “A Tale of Two Missions,” is a reference to the contrasting visions of the mayor and union officials, Olson said.
The video’s release last week came as Emanuel’s administration began negotiations with the union for a new four-year contract. Olson said the timing was not meant to coincide with the labor talks, but he hoped it would have an impact on public perception of the negotiations.
“You have got a mayor who wants to reform the school system and the teachers union is fighting him virtually every step of the way,” Olson told the Chicago News Cooperative on Monday. “Chicago Public Schools needs to be reformed, and the way you do that is through the contract.”
Fred Klonsky 
As Jonah Edelman said in his video, the mayor will try to split the union from parents’ support — in order to impose the long day, long year.
Many parents don’t want a 7.5 hour day, however, and are looking for help in getting this message across to the mayor and the Board of Ed.