You have to admire the teachers unions, I guess, for their ability to say such transparently hypocritical things with a straight face. The unions say they don’t like charter schools because they are allegedly not subject to “rigorous accountability standards.” Ohhh, yes, rigorous accountability. That’s what the union is all about. It opposes merit pay [...]
Sen. Ted Kennedy’s office made a big deal of the fact he was meeting this morning with President Bush’s nominee for attorney general, Judge Michael Mukasey. Then when the meeting was over came this: The role of Attorney General has never been more important in this country, and the Judiciary Committee—and the entire Senate—has an [...]
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