{"id":476,"date":"2002-04-20T11:11:17","date_gmt":"2002-04-20T18:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/04\/california-teachers-union-power-grab-ii\/"},"modified":"2002-04-20T11:11:17","modified_gmt":"2002-04-20T18:11:17","slug":"california-teachers-union-power-grab-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/04\/20\/california-teachers-union-power-grab-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"California teachers’ union power-grab II"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t— Previously we mentioned the attempt by the teachers’ union to control curriculum by making it part of their collective bargaining agreement; here’s another bill aimed at increasing teacher power and harming educational quality, from the Sacramento Bee,<\/a> about the only place in this state that actually covers the legislature:<\/p>\n

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California’s largest teachers union is pushing to dismantle the state’s system for testing students, ranking schools and enforcing accountability — linchpins in the multibillion-dollar academic reforms of recent years.


\nLegislation sponsored by the California Teachers Association would create a new state testing program, controlled by teachers, and would kill plans to require high school students to pass an exit examination before receiving a diploma.
\nAB 2347 marks a frontal assault on the policies of Gov. Gray Davis, who recently announced his opposition to the CTA’s attempt to expand collective bargaining to include academic issues, such as textbook selection.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This bill provides further evidence of the union’s toxic agenda.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— Previously we mentioned the attempt by the teachers’ union to control curriculum by making it part of their collective bargaining agreement; here’s another bill aimed at increasing teacher power and harming educational quality, from the Sacramento Bee, about the only place in this state that actually covers the legislature: California’s largest teachers union is … Continue reading “California teachers’ union power-grab II”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-7G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}