union and they would never do anything around teacher equality that was particularly aggressive because of those ties. and the president has been very clear that we need to help develop teachers to become effective but if they quite frankly i never thought i d see a democratic president say that but i think that really has been a game changer. your tactics have won you a lot of fans and also a lot of critics. it won you a spot on the cover of time magazine recently for your efforts. in trying to sell your plan recently a friend was at a talk you gave in which you said if you want warm and fuzzy i m not your girl. what do you mean by that? that is exactly right. i think that in my opinion for far too long we have been willing to turn a blind eye to the injustices that are happening to children in schools across america in the name of harmony amongst adults, right? we want to get along with the union. we want to get along with this person or that person and we don t want to fire an