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handle is hein.amenin/aeiadun0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points '3e pit j school reopenin during the pandemic has broughi to the national soot lilht the 'utsized role that teachers urnis p ay in managing big cities, a Burtau of Labor Statistics data reveal the big city concetrtiation and the increasing tregncyot ofteachers unions flexing their market powet. This strategy's success Cemon- strates that the reiationship .teen ;oca governiment and teachers u-nins is funda- mentai imb lanced, sug esting cha nes in grvean>c structure ure necear. This report presents licy oroposa of reverse schoo cinsolidation-breakirg u big city dr ict_ Into a clu Ser of smalle di trICts 'o city s'hool i stricts w uld rn*re Closely resenile their suburban counterparts. Rima giningt! i urn tm pu C L C o could cretea morc ctnitr uive rlatio nship bw e' cor and c govornrre'rt in imer ica's cities vhile insiring a new era o philanthropic comnunilty support. The challenge of reopening US public schools in the wake of the COVID -ig pandemic. has high- lighted the significant role that local teachers unions play in setig policy. Generally, priva-e and pao- chial schools have re tuned t, in-person classroom instruction, while public schools (including public charter schools often have been slower to do so. Large urban districts have been disproportionately closed for any in-person learning. Headin into the fall of 2020, the Center for Rehnentng Public Education found that onc in four school districts plan to reopen entirely remotely, but four in five urban schooli districts are set to, nrtaking them twice as likely as suburban districts and six times as likely as rural districts to do so.' Learning loss and the devastating cascading effects of schoo' closures have drawn oat tot more than a year now, and many of our largest cities' teachers unions were in prolonged battles about returning to school in the spring Unsurprisinglv, an October 9020 working paper found that mass partisa nshi and teachers union strength were far' greater predictions of school district decision- mnaking than were science and infection rates?2. Teachers unions arso have an outsized role in national politics. Members of teachers unions reg- ularly const tute roughiy Io percent of delegates to Denoeratic Party conventions, and they spend upward cv f$5 million onyearly political donations; That situation begs the question of whether public teachers unions have also gained disproportionate influence over public perception, compared to parents or 'be general public. Serious observers believe this is the case, and some believe it is a very bad thing indeed, For instance, the attorney Philip Howard, of the Campaign for Common Good,

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