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On yesterday’s program we heard the story of how one local public school teacher, Leonard Isenberg, after more then 20 years of teaching and stellar evaluations, is in dismissal proceedings after he complained that his school was graduating students with inadequate reading and writing skills. For the second installment in Uprising’s three part series on what happens to public school teachers when they speak out, we examine how teachers from all over the country who are in similar situations to Mr. Isenberg are organizing outside their unions to make themselves heard. Karen Horwitz is a former elementary teacher in Chicago and president of the National Association for Prevention of Teacher Abuse (NAPTA). For her, the equation is quite clear: Teacher abuse equals student abuse. Not only that, but the current dysfunctional reality of the educational system can be directly attributed to intimidation and harassment of teachers by school district administrators more concerned with funding than education. Her organization, NAPTA, has more than a 1000 members nationwide.

GUEST: Karen Horwitz, President of the National Association for Prevention of Teacher Abuse

Find out more www.EndTeacherAbuse.org.