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Failed government schools in California are getting worse, because of unions. How do we know the cause is unions?
"California was not able to qualify because the state still has not accepted the national standards; its data tracking system, Calpad, has been mired in problems; and the state faces the same obstacles to improving its lowest-performing schools that all the states do, but by far the biggest problem is moving toward evaluating teachers using test scores. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature, in pursuit of RTTT money, have made such linkage possible, so what's the problem?
The answer is that California's teachers unions are not, for the most part, buying in, because they have no intention of going on record with their members as ready to consider tying teacher pay and job security to student performance."
Parents and the community have allowed outsiders, unions, to force teachers to pay bribes, government to look the other way at incompetence and children to fail on the cross of union solidarity.
When will we care enough about the education of our children to chase the unions out of the Temple's? Until then expect our drop out rates to climb, remedial English and Math classes for high school graduates if they want to attend college.
We are harming our children--where is Children Services to arrest the abusers? The unions.
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"California was not able to qualify because the state still has not accepted the national standards; its data tracking system, Calpad, has been mired in problems; and the state faces the same obstacles to improving its lowest-performing schools that all the states do, but by far the biggest problem is moving toward evaluating teachers using test scores. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature, in pursuit of RTTT money, have made such linkage possible, so what's the problem?
The answer is that California's teachers unions are not, for the most part, buying in, because they have no intention of going on record with their members as ready to consider tying teacher pay and job security to student performance."
Parents and the community have allowed outsiders, unions, to force teachers to pay bribes, government to look the other way at incompetence and children to fail on the cross of union solidarity.
When will we care enough about the education of our children to chase the unions out of the Temple's? Until then expect our drop out rates to climb, remedial English and Math classes for high school graduates if they want to attend college.
We are harming our children--where is Children Services to arrest the abusers? The unions.
More...