Beltway "Liberals" Love "Reform"
Thank goodness that dirty hippie bloggers like yours truly have "serious" "liberals" like Jon Chait to save us from ourselves:
Chait, like so many other psuedo-libs, knows for a fact that there are bad, tenured teachers; he just won't say how many there are, or how big of an impact they make, especially compared to other factors. So he says, "aIt's certainly nice that Damon wants to defend teachers. But, first of all, the fact is that not all teachers are dedicated and good. A few are lazy and bad. Their badness and laziness has serious consequences for children, because it is extremely hard in practice to fire even obviously incompetent teachers.