Randi Weingarten and Friends Respond to My WSJ Piece

Jay Greene:

I've long argued that the teacher unions are hardly better at running their political interests than they are at running schools. They compensate for lousy ideas and poorly made arguments with the brute force of mountains of cash and an army of angry teachers.

My view of the teacher unions was confirmed by their mangled reaction to my piece in the Wall Street Journal noting the trade-offs between the number of teachers we hire and their quality. The boss of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, tweeted her response: "They don't want to pay teachers comp salaries..."

Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 17, 2012 1:41 AM
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