tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post1674130334827362551..comments2024-03-27T08:53:29.267-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: The American Teacher Act: Pay Raises and Other Shiny ThingsPeter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-24420921565860876542022-12-31T10:33:58.510-05:002022-12-31T10:33:58.510-05:00Mostly agree with this--and if something like this...Mostly agree with this--and if something like this were to pass, agree with the idea that it would likely collapse under its own weight, somewhere around, oh, Year Four. Also think the anti-public ed folks would use it as a screen to start more charters (if charters weren't included) where teachers would continue to be paid abysmally, freeing up lots of govt-supplied cash for CMOs to expand their franchises, buying tablets for kids as lures, etc. <br /><br />In fact, the charter question is the most interesting to me. I could see a $60K reqd salary floor as crushing to the way most charters operate, financially. <br /><br />I disagree on only one thing: what you're calling aspirational puffery. It's been such a long time since we had a full-throated endorsement by federal government of fully public schools and teachers--really, back to Johnson and the ESEA. Obama promo'd charters and his Secretary came to Detroit and suggested what we needed was a hurricane, a la NOLA. Clinton established teacher testing in AK, the first statewide 'accountability' measure. <br /><br />I would love to spend the next two years hearing Cardona talk about underpaid teachers working miracles and fully public ed being the cornerstone of democracy. Nancy Flanaganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00047575960944913289noreply@blogger.com