This chapter returns to the theoretical discussion in Chapter 4 about the relationship between ideology, power, discourses, and education. In that discussion, I argue that Althusser severely discounts the agency of educators. Teachers have been operating in conditions not of their own making, but that are, rather, the results of structural forces often beyond their own control. But within that architecture—the educational apparatus—they have a good deal of power, which explains how they have been able to organize movements of resistance to the attacks waged by elite reformers. Likewise, they have had to negotiate with an elite news media that has set restrictive boundaries on the debate around education policy. And yet, through their organizing, teachers have been able to shift the bounds of that debate in a more favorable direction.