I'm not going to defend everything education Minnesota does. Gutless, lazy administrators certainly could do more to force bad teachers to improve or fire them. Obviously they could use a little more autonomy when dealing with performance. Administrators should work onteacher quality all the time not just when Republicans cut school spending and force layoffs.So now anybody that dares question the juggernaut that is Education Minnesota hates teachers?
Come on, we can do better than that here.
I do think acs's positions are anti teacher. He wants significant cuts to seniority protections and elimination of pensions without, presumably, salary increases.
I just checked how much my high school physics teacher makes on twincities.com. A great science teacher with a masters degree and nearly twenty five years experience at a big metro district makes $65,000 a year. I don't know how we could attract and keep good teachers at that pay with meager benefits.