"It Has the Potential to Change the Education Reform Conversation"

"Whatever the particulars of the final resolution to the strike, the dustup will be successful if it shakes up the wrongheaded, yet increasingly bipartisan, sense that teachers and their unions are what ail American education. Students in Chicago and other big cities face significant challenges, including poverty and segregation and, yes, some incompetent educators. But Democrats need to get about the business of real education reform that addresses all of these questions—without demeaning the vast majority of teachers."

In The New Republic, Richard D. Kahlenberg argues that if Chicago teachers strike "has been bad for Democratic presidential politics, it may ultimately be good for Democratic education policy."