IEA’s sellout to Stand for Children was indeed a model for the nation.

The Mass Teachers Association bought the Stand for Children deal hook, line and stinker.

It cuts both ways, you know.

While the firm stand taken by the Chicago teachers in their negotiating posture with Rahm Emanuel and his hand-picked board of education inspires teachers across the nation, the sellout by the IEA leadership on Senate Bill 7 undermines resistance to corporate school reform.

Look no further than Massachusetts, where the Mass Teachers Association’s leaders have just struck a deal with Jonah Edelman’s Stand for Children to surrender on tenure and seniority rights. Sound familiar?

From Stephen Sawchuck in EdWeek:

The Massachusetts Teachers Association, a National Education Association affiliate, and the state chapter of the Stand for Children advocacy group have struck a deal on teacher seniority in the Bay State. Under the compromise, the union will support a legislative proposal weakening the place of seniority in layoff and transfer decisions, and Stand for Children will drop an aggressive ballot initiative that would have gone even further into areas like due process.

This isn’t going over well with the MTA’s rivals in the local affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers.

The state’s American Federation of Teachers affiliate, as well as its Boston Teachers Union local, are opposed to the compromise language and are threatening to amend it in the Statehouse. (The AFL-CIO, of which the AFT is a member, also opposes the compromise.)

Of course, here in Illinois, the AFT’s local state affiliate, the Illinois Federation of Teachers walked lock step with the IEA in going for the Stand for Children deal, hook, line and stinker, including throwing their Chicago local’s right’s to strike, a key part of collective bargaining, into the toilet.