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Article: Eva Moskowitz Runs In Manhattan Despite Randi Weingarten Ire.(TheFrontPage)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
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- June 6, 2005
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Byline: Jessica Bruder
As she attempts to win promotion from the City Council to the borough presidency of Manhattan, Eva Moskowitz has made public education her chief selling point. Of course, that's been done before, but there is one very unique aspect to Ms. Moskowitz's campaign: Her main adversary may be the politically powerful teachers' union.
Although it's been two years since Ms. Moskowitz, as chair of the Council's education committee, ran a series of high-profile hearings about work-rule abuses in the city's public-school system, the United Federation of Teachers still hasn't forgotten. The U.F.T.'s president, Randi Weingarten, said of the ...