Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl Power!

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Were I a betting man, I’d wager that teachers unions are responsible.

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Today New York legislators approved a bill that will more than double the number of charter schools, schools that are run privately using public funds, to the chagrin of the teachers unions. Barbara Martinez of The Wall Street Journal: New York would more than double the number of charter schools allowed to operate in the […]

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House Minority Leader John A. Boehner via The Washington Post: Giving states another $23 billion in federal education money simply throws more money into taxpayer-funded bailouts when we should be discussing why we aren’t seeing the results we need from the billions in federal dollars that are already being spent. These same teachers and school […]

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Goddammit.

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Jennifer Medina via The New York Times: The State Education Department and New York’s teachers’ unions have reached a deal to overhaul teacher evaluations and tie them to student test scores, brokering a compromise on an issue the unions had bitterly opposed for years. (Emphasis mine) It’s nice to know that the teachers of New […]

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We have a long way to go, but this new bill certainly seems like the sensible thing to do. Hopefully the other 49 states will start reigning in their teachers unions as well.  Our kids deserve better than what they’ve been getting.

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It seems that Arizona has gone off the deep end and in to the Conservatard pool of utter stupidity.  Last week they signed in to law a very controversial immigration enforcement bill which effectively makes racial profiling legal, along with various other KGBesque tactics for “dealing” with those eeeeeeevil brown people.  Now they’ve made studying […]

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