Word: shanker
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Union leaders reacted angrily to Reagan's proposals. The N.E.A. said the President was making a "disgraceful assault" on the teaching profession. Albert Shanker, president of the 600,000-member American Federation of Teachers, lambasted the President's views on education as "embarrassing and destructive." But over a lunch of shrimp salad at the White House last week, Reagan and the feisty union leader had a convivial talk and, in a coup for the President, Shanker said he was willing to explore different methods of compensation for teachers. "Ronald Reagan has been a disaster," he said...
...regarded as the conventional wisdom of the past five years. It gives these ideas the kind of respect they deserve." The teachers unions also endorsed the overall goals, although they quickly cautioned that longer school days would have to be negotiated at the bargaining table. Said Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers: "We should make use of the time we already have by getting rid of Mickey Mouse courses and Mickey Mouse curriculums. If that doesn't work, enlarge the day and the year...
...your article on tax credits for private schools [April 26], Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, was quoted as saying: "There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities." He should know that the law requires young people to go to school. It does not require them to go swimming...
...their children in private schools; an estimated 5 million students are enrolled in private schools, compared with 40 million in public schools, and that ratio has remained fairly steady over the past 15 years. Moreover, the tax credits would drain away funds needed to improve public education. Says Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers: "There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities...
...State vote mirrored divisions that already exist within the faculty. The C.F.A., linked to a nationwide teachers' union, the National Education Association, was supported by senior professors concerned with matters of scholarship and academic freedom. The U.P.C., an affiliate of Albert Shanker's hard-nosed American Federation of Teachers, counted much of its support among the part-time and nontenured. Such academic havenots, whose ranks have multiplied with the growth of community colleges, have been the backbone of the faculty labor movement, a relatively recent phenomenon. In 1970, just before budgets tightened, tenure openings disappeared and salaries fell...