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Watch: UFT, your zebra stripes are showing

Ellen Alpaugh
8.27.2014

The New York chapter of the United Federation of Teachers participated in an anti-police brutality rally this past Saturday, prompting the question of what exactly does the union stand for: teachers or a political agenda? Fordham’s vice president of research and coauthor of Fordham’s union-strength study, Amber Northern, explained to Fox viewers why the UFT’s decision to support this rally undermines their chief cause.

As Northern puts it, “the zebra is showing its stripes.” 

Tags: New York United Federation of Teachers

Ellen Alpaugh is the media relations associate at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where she leads Fordham's media outreach and social-media strategy. Ellen graduated cum laude from Rhodes College with a degree in psychology. At Rhodes, Ellen helped create an after-school arts program for middle-school students and preformed research on children's communication development. She…

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