Alternative to teachers unions looking to make push in WI

By Kirsten Adshead and Ryan Ekvall  | Wisconsin Reporter

MADISON — An organization billing itself as an alternative to teachers unions is trying to make headway in Wisconsin, and a familiar face is leading the push.

This time around, Kristi Lacroix is happy to be making the news.

The former Lakeview Technology Academy teacher was fiercely ridiculed when, during the height of the Recall Scott Walker effort, Lacroix appeared in an ad praising the governor and his controversial collective bargaining reforms.

But about that same time, frustrated with union representation, she began researching alternatives.

Lacroix left the classroom in June to take a job as membership director for the Wisconsin branch of the American Association of Educators, which provides liability insurance and professional resources for educators, without collective bargaining and without political lobbying.

“We’re not another union,” she said. “We’re an alternative to the union.”

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