From Jason Riley, writing in today’s Wall Street Journal (“Teachers on Strike“):
When negotiating collective-bargaining agreements or deciding whether to strike, the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association don’t have students in mind any more than the United Automobile Workers has car buyers in mind.
Here’s more from Jason’s article:
Teachers unions support work rules that prevent the most capable teachers from being sent to low-performing schools, that shield teachers from meaningful evaluations, and that require instructors to be laid off based on seniority instead of performance. No matter what union leaders claim, those rules do nothing to address the needs of students. They are job protections.