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to strip due process rights from teachers
?Education Week's Steve Sawchuk explained that the Obama education policy is a "Nixon to China" phenomenon. Of course it is! It certainly isn't an education policy! It is a political gamble designed to beat up on two of the Democrats' most loyal constituencies, teachers and families with children in urban schools,Miu Miu Online, to show the "Billionaires Boys Club" that the administration could be tough on its friends.
We have known since last year what the real issue is. Jonah Edelman was videotaped boasting to his corporate sponsors about how he outsmarted the teachers and their union. As Diane Ravitch recalled, Edelman regaled the nation's elite at Aspen about "how he had shaped legislation not only to cut back teachers' job protections but to prevent the Chicago union from ever striking." His boasts were doubly disturbing,Stella McCartney Bags, Ravitch noted,Timberland Shoes, because if such an ambush could work in Chicago, their anti-teacher,Stella McCartney Handbags, anti-union tactics could work anywhere. Ravitch explained:
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