Highly organized professional educators, sympathetic liberal legislators and a constituency of manipulable education consumers form a classic "iron triangle" that has proved impervious to reform.

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The private sector will make inroads into education, which has become too important a business to leave to hidebound professional educators, bewildered by and uncomfortable with change.

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Regular lamentations over new evidence that the system isn't working are met with stern demands from professional educators that the real issue be faced, namely the need to spend more money, mostly on them.

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Every penny that is spent on education has to be diverted from these other options--unless education spending is to be viewed as an end in itself, as many professional educators, and seemingly the Washington Post, do.

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It now has a free, web-based version and paid plans for educators and professional studios.

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In addition, many of the alleged benefits of joining, say, a teachers union liability insurance, for instance can be procured from non-union professional associations (such as the Association of American Educators) at far less than the cost of union dues.

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The district launched some professional learning over the summer for close to 150 classroom educators and the process will continue throughout the school year.

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