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No to putting more teachers back in our classrooms, more cops back on the beat, more firefighters back to work.
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Each two hour class has no more than 15 children, allowing teachers to better focus on individual needs, said Disney.
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When we look beyond the issue of accessibility to the quality of education our children receive -- after all it should be fit for purpose -- the region has among the lowest education requirements for teachers, with 50% of countries requiring lower secondary school teachers to have completed no higher than a secondary education (so teachers have barely more education that their students).
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There is no shortage of theories on why removing teachers unions makes charter schools more effective.
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More recent studies have found no evidence that licensing improves the quality of teachers or mortgage brokers.
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But I do wish people would understand that it is no coincidence that teachers and administrators at public schools tend to have a much more limited and skeptical view of reform.
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Teachers nonetheless earn less than rig hands, most of whom have no more than a high-school education.
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An emphasis on union-busting, firing teachers, lowering teaching standards, and more test-based accountability of teachers, less accountability for corporate involvement and politicians (there is no election of the Board, for instance).
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Most of the swelling education budget has gone on higher pay for teachers (who now often earn more than the starting salary of a university lecturer), yet no improvement in performance has been extracted in return.
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