They damned the kids: Teachers' union and its lackeys sank bid for federal funds
The NY Daily News editorial correctly blasts the main culprits for NY's dismal showing:
The state Legislature and New York teachers unions have joined to subject the city's 1 million public school students - and peers around the state - to gross educational malpractice.
At the same time, they have walloped the taxpayers to the tune of as much as $700 million by, in defiant stupidity, spurning a bonanza of federal school aid.
The main agents of this destruction were Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Senate Democratic Conference chief John Sampson and United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew - all of whom stood athwart history by refusing to give school districts the power to fire demonstrably bad instructors.
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They damned the kids: Teachers' union and its lackeys sank bid for federal funds
Tuesday, March 30th 2010, 4:00 AM
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/03/30/2010-03-30_they_damned_the_kids.html#ixzz0jlOH7Y19
posted by Whitney Tilson at 11:41 AM
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