
Over the weekend journo and former NBC and CNN anchor Campbell Brown
penned an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal taking teachers’ unions to task for not being more aggressive about dealing with sexual predators and sexually abusive adults in schools. Whether and how to reform policies dealing with such teachers is being hotly debated in California and New York right now.
Brown’s op-ed set off a firestorm (Eduwonk links
here and
here for background and my take) and a fairly nasty debate – as much about Brown’s motivations as about the underlying issue. In her first interview about these