Joel Klein, the CEO of News Corporation's educational division, was chancellor of New York City public schools from 2002 through 2010.

He went to work for Murdoch a few months ago. He was hired to do something to improve education.

Read the Highlighted WSJ Version at - https://sites.google.com/site/act2more/.

But, most of the NEW WSJ's plans are difficult to understand on first glance.
NOW it seems - the REAL reason Murdoch hired Klein is because he fits in the END UNIONS Campaign. 

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Here is PART of what he says - 

"on the city teachers-union contract, an extraordinary document, 

running for hundreds of pages, governing who can teach what 

and when, 

who can be assigned to hall-monitor or lunchroom duty 

and who can't, 

who has to be given time off to do union work during the school day, and so on."

Sounds kind of Anti-Union selective to me.

He goes on - 

"The contract defied parody. So when Ms. Moskowitz exposed its ridiculousness, 

*** Hey, Joel - Union Contracts are Negotiated by school boards and teachers.
I guess, you mean, that the School Boards were - "ridiculous" for including certain things in the contract.

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the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), then headed by Randi Weingarten, made sure that Ms. Moskowitz's run for borough president came up short."

*** Future Candidates should realize that Joel must think, that the Teachers as a group are so powerful that they can CONTROL ELECTIONS.

If this is true, no wonder candidates seek Union Backing. 

Unions back - What is GOOD for WORKERS.

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"Politicians—especially Democratic politicians—generally do what the unions want. 

The unions, in turn, are very clear about what that is: 

They want happy members..."

Unions want happy Members.

A Classic Line, and EASY to understand.