The executive director of Democrats for Education Reform says Republican are now having internal education policy disagreements — just as Democrats have. Joe Williams says Republican education reformers need to ditch the Tea Party and take on the for-profit companies taking public money but not producing results.
Nearly a year ago, we watched with great interest as a fascinating left-right alliance formed in Washington between the teachers unions (who didn’t like the concept of federal accountability in schools) and the Tea Party (which didn’t like the idea of any kind of federal involvement in schools.). Together, this alliance wound up shaping proposed changes to existing federal law that would let states and districts off the hook for improving the academic performance of millions of disadvantaged children. Historically reasonable folks like poor John Boehner started looking like the helpless, powerless substitute teachers we used to torment back in middle school.
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