Any other industry which produced results as poor as public education would be seeing pay cuts and layoffs, even bankruptcy. We’ve poured billions down the education rat hole and like aid to Africa, nothing happens in return. It never will.
Why not privatize the public schools, dismantle the useless unions, voucher out the per student state allocation as a cash credit to the school of your choice, just start afresh?
We’ve done the merit pay dance before too. What good is that when the unions simultaneously protects their hacks? Salary isn’t the issue. Catholic schools in the inner city with a lot less teacher pay produce better results. With benefits for a nine month job teachers aren’t that underpaid in most places.
McCain hinted a accelerating vouchers. Breaking the grip of the useless unionized public schools with their fail outcomes is the only permanent sane path.
