Education Reform Action Heroes:

The Center for Education Reform salutes all those folks beyond the Beltway who have written laws on the back of a napkin, worked tirelessly to persuade lawmakers to pass those laws, created schools, written standards, and generally challenged the conventional wisdom in the interest of making schools work better for all children. These are YOUR Action Heroes, and here are their stories.

January 2007

Action Hero: Cindy Omlin

She should be honored for her efforts to relieve the teachers of Washington state of the necessity of joining unions or of having to pay dues to them, which are spent on political activity. It seems to me that the teachers who can take advantage of this type of program would be more likely to stay in the profession and younger women and men would probably then become teachers using their higher intelligence to bring better skills to their jobs. Without the union interference, people would be more apt to fulfill a desire to help the young to become really great Americans of one kind or another.