Well of course that is unless the governor of your state proposes cuts to those programs and tries to introduce programs to hold educators accountable. All of a sudden their political vendettas take priority over the kids. In Georgia they are trying to compete for a $400 million grant for the schools. Everybody wants the state to try hard and get this money. Well everybody but the biggest teachers association in the state. In Georgia we technically don't have teacher unions, rather they are called associations.
The teachers union, er excuse me, association is a powerful force in the state, and in fact they are one of the primary reason that our current governor is a Republican. The first one since reconstruction, please remember that all you race baiting types. When Sonny Perdue was running for governor, the current governor, a Democrat, had proposed several reforms to the education system including teacher accountability and the possibility of merit pay for the good teachers while making it easier to get rid of the bad ones. So now the teachers associations are against the very governor they helped to put in office.
Georgia's second largest teachers' group said Wednesday it will send a letter to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan formally opposing the state's bid for new federal school reform grants.
The announcement by the 43,000-member Georgia Association of Educators comes on the heels of a legislative victory it shared last week with the state's largest teacher group, the 78,000-member Professional Association of Georgia Educators. Both groups successfully fought efforts by Gov. Sonny Perdue to create a merit pay system for teachers or, at the least, to create a statewide mandate to make student performance part of teachers' job evaluations.
I guess this makes the teachers association sort of apolitical huh? They will oppose anybody who tries to hold them accountable, and the children be damned. They are just props to be used to further their political agenda.
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