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Article: Check-mate: protecting workers' paychecks from predatory unions is good politics - and simple justice.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- January 26, 1998
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Mr. Rapp is a journalism fellow at the Center for the Study of Popular Culture in Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES
IN 1996, Frank Ury had only one term under his belt on the school board of Orange County's Saddleback Valley Unified District. But he already had a reputation as a renegade. With two friends, he had formed the Education Alliance, an organization which supported conservative candidates running for Orange County school boards. He had also led an effort -- opposed (successfully) by the teachers unions -- to make algebra a graduation requirement in the district's high schools. Worse still, in the eyes of the California education establishment, Ury had ...