Shuttering the DOE and taking on unions – as Christie did as New Jersey’s governor – should be a big part of the national discussion.
and higher salaries for workers. In public schools, however, unions such as the California Teachers’ Association have secured work rules including tenure and seniority that have reduced the ability of schools to better serve students.
It’s no surprise that unions lobbied to keep the COVID-19 stay-at-home orders in place rather than speed up the return of– even though poor students in particular suffered grievous educational setbacks during that period. It’s also not surprising that unions – and their allied politicians – have spent their war-chests lobbying to limit charter-school competitors.
We’re happy to see these important issues come back onto the national stage. It’s worth remembering that education policy didn’t get mentioned during Trump’s competing interview with former TV host Tucker Carlson, as Education Next. As the Republican Party has fixated on culture-war issues, solid nuts-and-bolts policy issues have taken a back seat.
So why are we also frustrated? Because we’ve been hearing these promises for 40 years and they’ve amounted to little more than campaign slogans. Republicans have largely given up on trying to promote fundamental reforms and have instead waged campaigns to have conservatives take over local school boards or mandate education policy at the
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