unions part of the solution or part of the problem? there will be more than 19 million students in college this fall. how to make sure that pricey investment pays off. we begin with a passionate debate over public school reformp. with me steven bril, and he spent two years immersed in thousands of pages of documents and hours in the classroom in an interviews for his book class warfare. take a look at this poll from 1976 asked if teachers unions, helped, hurt or made no difference in the quality of public school education, 38% said unions hurt it. fast forward to today. that number has grown to nearly 50%. steven bril, are you surprised? i m not surprised. the battle has been worth it for the reformers and unions because i see a place where they can come at and where the politicians and the reformers can get the unions on their side which is the only way we re ever going to fix america s schools. you came at this as a journalist, with no dog in the fight. you started lo