Romney vs. teachers unions: The inconvenient truth

Published: Thursday, May 31 2012 3:50 p.m. MDT

Summary

It wasn’t always this way. Up through the 1970s, the quality of the teacher corps in the United States was, in effect, subsidized by discrimination.

Matt Miller writes in The Washington Post about education emergencies and the value of teachers:

"It wasnt always this way. Up through the 1970s, the quality of the teacher corps in the United States was, in effect, subsidized by discrimination. Women and minorities didnt have as many opportunities outside the classroom. Its wonderful for society that this has changed. But as other avenues for those who used to become teachers opened up dramatically, salaries for teachers have failed to keep pace. As union leaders have told me, this has proved a double whammy when it comes to getting great young people to choose teaching as a career."

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LDS Liberal

Farmington, UT

I find it so utterly ironic that Mitt Romney trashes Public Schools, and wants vouchers -- while He and all his children never even attended Public Schools.

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4:54 p.m. May 31, 2012
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the truth

Holladay, UT

RE: LDS Liberal

YOu can have your cake and eat it too!

It's called vouchers,

It's called freedom of choice.

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5:55 a.m. June 1, 2012
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