Education Alliance Is Alive and Well
* Your article (“Despite Hot Issues, School Races Stay Cool,” Oct. 26) suggests the Education Alliance is on the decline because we are supporting “only” 24 school board candidates and have raised “only” $50,000. On the contrary. Most observers would consider those marks of vigorous activism.
The Education Alliance is gradually breaking the teachers unions’ stranglehold on our school boards. Every election, the unions lose a few more school board races. When we founded the alliance five years ago, only a handful of board members in this county were elected without union support. Now there are dozens, with majorities in at least three districts.
Our success is due to our philosophy: Schools should focus primarily on providing a solid education for our children; parents should be free to make educational choices for their children; and education should be controlled locally. Our candidates are making these ideas into reality throughout Orange County. The principles espoused by the Education Alliance are now becoming the mainstream of education reform--not just in our state, but throughout the country.
MARK BUCHER
Alliance director
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