More on teacher bashing -- getting proactive

02-07-2011

Blog by John Merrow/Huffington Post

Last week in this space I wondered why the President had singled out for high praise a school in Denver where the teachers had taken on their own union to get work rules relaxed. Was he, I asked, sending a not-very-subtle message to teacher unions, "Put kids' interests first. Stop with the trade union behavior"? I asked Peter Cunningham, the Department's uber-capable Assistant Secretary for Communications and Outreach, how that particular school was selected. He responded in an email that he had had nothing to do with it. So if it wasn't the Department of Education, then who? The likely suspects are on the President's White House staff or in the Office of Management and Budget. (more...)

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