As the school year starts, it’s a sad story for the growing numbers of poor kids in America.
School starts today for millions of American kids.
Millions more will come to school next Monday or following Labor Day.
Thousands of teachers will be look at the children in front of them and those children will be poor and hungry. They will be homeless and sick.
There is no in-service that will solve this. There will be no new instructional program. No new unfunded federal or state mandate. No self-serving press release from the US Department of Education. No crazy rhetoric about cutting the federal deficit.
Teachers having unions didn’t create this. It’s not the result of tenure or seniority rules. Our pensions don’t make
