No strong teacher unions, lower SAT/ACT scores. Any correlation?
In the national debate over whether teachers should have collective bargaining rights, Michael Moore, a professor at Georgia Southern University, sent some interesting data that he allowed me to share here.
Only five states do not have collective bargaining for educators and have deemed it illegal.
Those states and their ACT/SAT rankings are as follows:
South Carolina – 50th
North Carolina – 49th
Georgia – 48th
Texas – 47th
Virginia – 44th
If you are wondering, Wisconsin, with its collective bargaining for teachers, is ranked 2nd in the country.
(In Wisconsin, the new governor, Scott Walker, is trying to wipe out teachers’ collective bargaining rights.)
–From Maureen Downey, for the AJC Get Schooled blog