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...other hand, Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, argued that "there has to come a time when there are minimum standards, and language is the one criterion that matters most." The American Federation of Teachers, archrival union to the NEA, urged its 15,000 members in Texas to cooperate in the test. Said an AFT spokesman in Washington: "Texas is pumping 3 billion more dollars into education. We'll take a little test if that helps reassure people that teachers are qualified and competent...
...next day the National Education Association (NEA), the nation's largest teachers' union, with school districts in Michigan, Texas and Vermont, filed suit against the Federal Government, claiming that No Child is severely underfunded. Maine is considering joining. Connecticut is crafting its own suit, and other states may sign on. And then there's Texas: Bush's home state was fined $444,282 last month (out of a $1.1 billion federal allowance) by the U.S. Department of Education for missing a deadline to report school rankings. Texas continues to violate the law in other ways...
Flash forward to today, when the teachers' union has cited that very clause in its suit against the government. "I don't think you have to be a lawyer to say what that paragraph means," says Bob Chanin, general counsel for the NEA. "We'd be delighted to take on [the Department of Education]. If we get down to the merits, we think we clearly have the better of the case...
Teachers’ unions often do not like home educators because the government schools lose thousands of dollars of state and federal aid per student when home educators opt out—the National Education Association (NEA) annually passes a resolution condemning home education. School boards and parent-teacher associations regret the loss of some of the most involved parents from their midst. Social services case-workers, though great people in almost any other context, frequently distrust home educators or are unaware of state laws regarding home education and so harass those who practice it, including—full disclosure?...
Most importantly—and what government is most capable of achieving—we should be left alone. The NEA annually calls for the imposition of state licensing as well as one-size-fits-all curricula on home educators. This notion should be emphatically rejected. Home education produces superior results precisely because of its flexible nature and freedom from outmoded educational theories. Centralized bureaucrats must not legislate these benefits away...