In Terrible Trouble
The Goldwater Institute has an article about the remarks of education some union leaders admitting that the policies they advocate are not helping to educate children. For example, Morty Rosenberg, head of a local union in New York and sits on the NEA national board of directors said in part:
If the United States is to preserve our system of free public schools, teacher unions are going to have to stop accepting the status quo and making excuses for the poor performance of our students. Most of us know that contrary to all of the talk about how we are raising our standards, in most of our schools they continue to decline. The low scores on the so-called high stakes tests are testimony to the fact that large numbers of students leave school knowing next to nothing and ill equipped for any but the most menial of jobs.
That is an amazing admission for a union leader. Read the rest of his remarks.
November 10th, 2005 at 12:19 pm
I was hopeful that Props. 74 & 75 were going to pass in California. Looks like status quo wins again. As mentioned here at and at the Educational Beat Union agendas take precedence over properly educating our keiki. Sounds like Morty Rosenberg understands what is at stake. Why can’t more people think like this. Thank you for the post.