Publick Edukashun Four ME!

In case you didn't see it, the Associated Press ran an article this week entitled, "Union-Run Charter School Draws Scrutiny," that talks about how one of the New York educrat unions is operating a charter school project in a Brooklyn-area elementary school with predictable results -- the unionized charter operation has not improved the quality of education. So what do the educrats say in response? "See, we told you that charter schools don't work." Well, yes, they don't work when you use the same failed methodologies and incompetent staff, i.e. keeping all of the elements that contribute to public schools failing. At least the charter laws allow school boards to terminate the contracts of under-performing schools--an option that is rarely available for union-controlled, non-charter schools.

This is only one example (the only union-run charter school in the country, I believe), and thus makes it hard to draw too much from this single case, but I think it shows two things:

1) Educrats cannot compete in a competitive education market;

2) Unionized education is an utter failure; or from another perspective, a complete success. It has been the educational goal for many since the time of Horace Mann to denude education of any thought of the transcendent, and they have succeeded. Now that the results are in, what do we do?

If al-Qaeda wanted to improve their public-relations image in the U.S., they could do America a favor by bombing the next NEA and AFT conventions. That would be a good start.