Tuesday, January 29, 2013

School choice the only way to solve teachers' split loyalties - Chicago Libertarian

School choice the only way to solve teachers' split loyalties - Chicago Libertarian - Richard Lorenc:

January 28, 2013 - "This week is being celebrated as National School Choice Week from coast to coast. A whistle-stop tour that began on Friday in Los Angeles will arrive in Chicago's Union Station this evening before heading to its final destination in New York on Sunda

"The fact is the public schooling system today only serves students secondarily. As Chicagoans witnessed last fall, the system is rigged in such a way that a private organization called the Chicago Teachers Union must be appeased first before public schools will even begin to offer instruction to students. Merits of the CTU's demands aside, it was able to close nearly every school in Chicago singlehandedly.

"Far from being a broken institution, public schools across the country are working exactly as they have been designed: to meet the needs of the adults they employ."

Read more: http://www.chicagonow.com/chicago-libertarian/2013/01/school-choice-the-only-way-to-solve-teachers-split-loyalties/
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