Would the AAE's liability policy provide teachers with adequate protection?
"Think what you may, but Washington's plan is to federalize education and cut the local control out of the picture."
It seems that the NEA wants to cut local control, too:
Seriously, most of the teachers I know are not on the left end of the spectrum like most people on FR seem to believe. The nature of local property taxes vs teacher benefits seems to force them into supporting the dems. So much controversy over so many issues.
Here's an example: My wife has 2 masters. We moved to Alaska from back east. The state certification office which was under repub control questioned her 4 year degree certification but was completely happy with both her masters certifications. NCATE standards. Wife has been teaching over 15 years. Anyway, she called the NEA for legal assistance and they filled her in on the vendetta the repubs had against teachers; stick them every chance they had. NEA lawyers also called the state certification office on the carpet and boy did heads roll. Wife was certified the nx day and also received an apology. Bottom line is even though my wife is registered repub, she now feels the NEA is there to help her. I think most teachers have had similiar experiences and will not go against the union for those reasons.
Seeing the feds expand their control in all areas of education still grates me to no end anyway. Not good for our children's future.