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...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...
...opponents of the bill are led by Albert Shanker of the American Federation of Teachers. Shanker believes the bill is a power grab by the NEA and argues that it runs counter to reorganization plans that historically have favored consolidation, not expansion into separate constituency departments...
...Shanker also said approval of the bill would weaken education by reducing the labor support now behind the health and welfare appropriations of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...