Tuesday, August 07, 2012
Teachers Unions Go to Bat for Sexual Predators - WSJ.com
In the Wall Steet Journal, Campbell Brown highlights the problem of union's defending sexual predator teachers:
"By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum. Even Hollywood, famously sympathetic to organized labor, has turned on unions with the documentary 'Waiting for Superman' (2010) and a feature film, 'Won't Back Down,' to be released later this year. But perhaps most damaging to the unions' credibility is their position on sexual misconduct involving teachers and students in New York schools, which is even causing union members to begin to lose faith. In the last five years in New York City, 97 tenured teachers or school employees have been charged by the Department of Education with sexual misconduct."
