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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
This education proposal from the Kerry campaign sounds a lot like the compromise I described a while back -- more spending on schools, but tied to a deal to cut the power of the teacher's unions:
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You forgot the last paragraph:
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Of course, campaign proposals have a funny way of not turning into laws. And, to be sure, we're never going to have major education reform except at the state level. That's where the action is--and where teachers unions are at their most powerful in Democratic politics. Unfortunately, few Democrats seem willing to follow Kerry's lead. Aren't there any ambitious governors or gubernatorial hopefuls out there willing to get a little radical to fix public education?"
And, remember back a while, when Kerry first proposed this sort of thing in a speech to the NEA faithful, and they got quite cool to him for a bit, and then he quietly backtracked and vowed not to screw with teachers, and then they backed him wholeheartedly?
Just lke his overt hawkishness is backed by a stealth plan to withdraw from Iraq soon, I suspect this radical ed fix will simply disappear, if in fact he doesn't issue four or five contradictory messages before the election. He needs the NEA, and this isn't going to please them.
