The Department of Education and United Federation of Teachers have used their considerable resources to enhance the political fortunes and the national ambitions of their leaders, not to improve the schools. Each side should practice some unilateral disarmament and do what needs to be done for this city: agree on a new contract that puts the interests of the kids above the interests of the adults. And that means all the adults: teachers, union leaders, chancellors, and mayors.

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