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United front: Teachers unions quietly spend millions on ‘grassroots’ groups
Public documents show teachers unions are spending millions of dollars creating front groups that appear to have wide grassroots support when in fact they are staffed, organized and funded by a single special interest. Tracing how these relationships are funded is not always straightforward. By David Cantor, The 74

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