Tuesday, January 19, 2010

UFT 1, Kids 0 - NYPOST.com


UFT 1, Kids 0 - NYPOST.com:

"Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver flipped a stiff middle finger to Presi dent Obama and Education Secre tary Arne Duncan over the weekend, all but flushing $700 million in special federal school aid down the toilet and initiating the dismantlement of New York's stunningly successful charter school movement.

It was a signal victory for the United Federation of Teachers, which can't abide charter schools because -- unlike the majority of unionized schools -- they actually educate kids.

Silver had help.

* John Sampson, a honcho in the comic cabal that runs the state Senate, signed off on the cave-in."