“When school children start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of school children.”

iowntheworld.com  Headline quotes former American Federation of Teachers President Albert Shanker, speaking in the video below.
"Those experts have been in charge for years. They are what school reformers call the “Blob.” Jeanne Allen from the Center for Education Reform says for years attempts at reform have run, “smack into federations, alliances, departments, councils, boards, commissions, panels, herds, flocks and convoys, that make up the education industrial complex, or the Blob."  Also BigFurHat.com