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By Dana Chivvis - AOL NewsThe Providence School Board has voted 4-3 to send dismissal notices to all of the Rhode Island school district's 1,926 teachers. Thursday night's meeting was held in a school gymnasium to accommodate the more than 700 teachers who turned out to voice their opposition to the move. The board vote came after two hours of discussion. "I'm feeling disrespected, devalued and marginalized," teacher Ed Gorden told the panel, according to The Providence Journal. "Termination is a career-ender. You are putting a scarlet letter on every one of us." Providence Teachers Union President Steve Smith said ...
Opinion: Teachers Unions in the Forefront of Education Reform
By not in system - AOL News(Nov. 12) -- Disparaging our children's teachers and blaming teachers unions won't improve public education. While, sadly, bashing unions is the specialty and mission of the Center for Union Facts, as it demonstrated in its AOL News opinion piece last week ("Will Teachers Unions Bend to Education Reform?"), the American Federation of Teachers prefers to focus on concrete solutions that will improve the current state of the American public education system. Do we have to makes changes? Absolutely. But improving schools requires building on what works and replicating it. There are countless ...
Opinion: Will Teachers Unions Bend to Education Reform?
By not in system - AOL News(Nov. 5) -- Democrats in Congress aren't the only ones who had a bad day on Tuesday. So did their No. 1 cash cow, the teachers unions. The two largest teachers unions -- the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, which combine to form the single largest source of donations to Democrats -- have hit a rough patch. Not only did their political apologists in Congress just lose more than 60 seats in the House and Senate, but they've been enduring a PR nightmare of epic proportions ever since the release of the much-discussed "Waiting for 'Superman,'" a ...
When Did Teachers Unions Become the Enemy for Orthodox Liberals?
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyThe new documentary, "Waiting for Superman," is the work of Davis Guggenheim, who also directed "An Inconvenient Truth." But his new movie, on the subject of school reform, takes on the teacher's union so pointedly that he practically cues the music from "Jaws" every time the union is mentioned -- and makes it look like the only obstacle to public school excellence is the ability to fire teachers with impunity. Davis isn't alone in this view, either; on the contrary, it's become the new conventional wisdom among liberals. When did we put the American Federation of Teachers on par with Al ...
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