Obama: Teacher unions can help boost schools

pioneer press ^ | 9-27-10 | AP

[WOBBLY BOB]

WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama says teachers' unions can be part of the solution to problem schools. He says unions have often been resistant to change as they try to protect their members—but that many of them are now working with states on reforms including charter schools, and imposing higher standards and accountability. In an interview Monday with NBC's "Today" show, Obama said the message to unions needs to be that they can't defend a status quo in which a third of students are dropping out.

[WOBBLY BOB]

They're the problem, not solution.

[Kimmers]

I have always supported school choice....union vs. none union school....we will see which school is better

[This Just In]

Sure, after all, look at their track record.

[therightliveswithus]

Talk about icky....

[Kieri]

PFAAAAAAAAHAHAHAAAA!!! I dare him to come to Detroit and say that.

[pikachu]

Hmm, is Sidwell Friends School a union shop. I have a hunch it is not.

[OriginalChristian]

I wonder what color the sky is in ObamaWorld? He is delusional...

[BookmanTheJanitor]

[rhombus]

unions can be part of the solution to problem schools

He's obviously getting the really good drugs now.

[achilles2000]

They’re the problem, not solution.”

And the solution is to get our children our of our single-payer government schools...now.

[Brett66]

I’m sure they’ll work the same wonders as they did for GM and Chrysler, oh wait, they already did.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

many of them are working with states to find solutions

Yeah. In New Jersey, their solution is to pray that Governor Christie drops dead, and to whine at him at town halls that they aren't paid enough.

[al_c]

Obama: Teacher unions can help boost ruin schools

There ... I fixed it.

[Buckeye McFrog]

keeping in mind of course that “boost” is Chicago street slang for “steal”

[chrisser]

I have always supported school choice....union vs. none union school....we will see which school is better

Funny how libs are all about "choice". Except when it comes to schools, healthcare, unions, etc.

[the lone haranguer]

Only if the unions leave the schools, never to return. Now, that’s change I can get behind!!!

[MrB]

So why doesn’t anyone, even someone like Rush,

DEMAND that libs provide empirical evidence for the baseless assertions they make?

[lowbridge]

many of them are now working with states on reforms including charter schools, and imposing higher standards and accountability.

What universe is he from? In New York, the biggest impediment to Charter schools, higher standards, and accountability are the Teacher Unions.