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On education policy, appeasement is about as ineffective as it is in foreign affairs. Many proponents of school choice, especially Democrats, have tried to appease teachers unions by limiting their support to charter schools while opposing private school vouchers. They hope that by sacrificing vouchers, the unions will spare charter schools from political destruction. – [...] In his latest Report Card post, Matthew Stone points out that the party lines on merit pay, at least within the State of Maine. have shifted; no longer is it righties for, lefties against. Now that Obama has proposed merit pay, Dems and some of their allies are more favorably inclined. Stone sees little opposition [...] Two stories, actually the same story presented in two different ways, caught our eye last Friday. We saw the BDN story (“Study gives Maine an F for evaluating teachers“) over our first cup of coffee. It begins: Although a national group has given Maine a failing grade in the way it retains good teachers and [...] |
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