Former DNC chair suggests union hostility toward charter schools is over, but reality suggests otherwise
During a Wednesday television appearance, former Vermont Gov. and Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean said “charter schools are the future” and suggested that the charter school-teacher union “battle is coming to an end.”
We don’t believe that for a second.
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Charters that are organized by unions lose their unique characteristics
A news report tells us that Kathy McNamara, executive director of Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School in Orleans, has decided to resign.
The same story said the recent decision of teachers to unionize probably played a role in McNamara’s decision.
We don’t blame McNamara for tossing [...]
State should rush implementation of new teachers evaluation system
Education Action Group would like to congratulate Mitchell Chester, the Massachusetts commissioner of elementary and secondary education, for his bold plan to hold teachers more accountable for student performance, partially through the use of test scores.
We also applaud the leadership of the Massachusetts Teachers Association [...]
A recent opinion piece by a tried-and-true defender of the teacher unions caught our attention. The essay perfectly captures the stale thinking of the unions and their political foot soldiers.
Here is our response:
To the editor,
We would like to take a moment to respond to a letter from Mr. Bruce Ditata that recently [...]
Whatever happened to putting the needs and interests of students first?
That must be what taxpayers are wondering as they watch the Mansfield (Mass.) Education Association invoke a “job action” which instructs teachers and other union members to pack up and stiff-arm students after the school day is contractually over.
The teachers union is [...]
