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Report as: spam offensive Jim Stegall on 12/06/06 at 5pm

An interesting stance for a politician who hails from a state so thoroughly dominated by teachers unions. I'd like to think he's serious about reform, but I've seen the 'teacher quality' angle mis-used by unions to keep effective non-union teachers out of the classroom. By equating quality with traditional licensure requirements, unions block entry into the profession of smart, accomplished people who would make excellent teachers but have not wasted four years of their lives in a school of education, where the only thing many learn is that they must join the NEA or AFT.




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