Two Massachusetts state senators advocate for teachers unions. They do not advocate for educating students. They fail to mention the role of teachers unions making education policy. The unions have a role in the dumbed down students turned out by public schools across the nation. Unless and until that ends and their stranglehold on education policy is broken, the dumbing down will continue. See e.g., John Taylor Gatto's book, Dumbing Us Down. Or see how determined the unions are to thwart educating students, by their multi-year battle, which they lost, in Wisconsin when a Governor with a spine, Republican Scott Walker, stood up to them. MA politicians are famous for their lack of spines.
Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker
[From article]
In 1993 when the Massachusetts Legislature voted to create charter schools, the intent was that charters would experiment with new practices for educating our children. Originally, it was intended to take the successful practices developed by charter schools and use them in the district public schools. Today, charter schools are promoted not as collaborators with public schools, but as competitors in a marketplace where test scores take the place of profits. In this market, there are rewards for schools that can avoid students who are likely to score low. That was never the intent.
http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20140810/NEWS/140819882
Guest column: Implications of a dual public education system
By Sens. Patricia Jehlen and Ken Donnelly
Posted Aug. 10, 2014 @ 8:37 am
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle
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