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Sunday, December 11, 2011

What do the Bloomberg and the NEA leadership have in common? « Fred Klonsky

What do the Bloomberg and the NEA leadership have in common? « Fred Klonsky:

What do Bloomberg and the NEA leadership have in common?

There was justifiable outrage this past week directed at New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg gave a speech in which he suggested New York schools would be better with classes that were twice as large and if half the teachers were fired.

Bloomberg went on to explain that what mattered most was teacher quality. A good teacher would be a good