he job of the American public school teacher has never been so thankless. In states across America, cutting teacher salaries and pensions has become the most popular method for fixing budget deficits. New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie’s deep cuts, for instance, force teachers to contribute a much higher percentage of their salaries to their pensions, while doubling or even tripling their health care contributions and eliminating cost-of-living adjustments. Republican Governors Scott Walker of Wisconsin and John Kasich of Ohio took their austerity measures a step further by abolishing collective bargaining rights for teachers. Such legislation is possible because the image of teachers has never been so degraded, especially of unionized teachers, whom Christie
How Book Bans, Threats to Honest Teaching of History, and “Don’t Say Gay”
Bills Harm Our Children and Undermine Education for Citizenship
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Public schools, which serve more than 50 million of our nation’s children
and adolescents are perhaps our society’s most important public
institution. Unli...
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