{"id":2214,"date":"2020-01-21T11:30:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T18:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2214"},"modified":"2020-01-21T12:46:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T19:46:59","slug":"teachers-unions-still-pushing-the-disastrous-ab-221","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2214","title":{"rendered":"Teachers’ Unions Still Pushing the Disastrous AB 221"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democrats in California have a bad habit of trying to forcibly silence those that disagree with their views. It’s happening right now with Assembly Bill 221, a piece of proposed legislation that would prevent schools from hiring teachers from third party organizations for a period of less than five years.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a direct attack by the powerful teachers’ unions and their Democratic lackeys against a nonprofit called Teach for America (TFA). TFA takes ambitious and highly qualified young college graduates and puts them through a rigorous crash course in teaching and then positions them in struggling schools around the country. The teachers’ unions have taken offense to TFA because they threaten the union monopoly on education.<\/span><\/p>\n

TFA has proved unwilling to join in recent teacher strikes, like the one in Oakland. The bill itself, AB 221, has removed any specific mention of TFA, but will prohibit the hiring of teachers through third party agencies who do not commit to at least five years of teaching and prohibit the hiring of teachers through third party agencies to schools that pull at least 40 percent of their student body from low-income families.<\/span><\/p>\n

TFA has a great mission: to take young, educated people and introduce them to the field of teaching. Critics of the program claim that if the TFA teachers are so excellent then they would not be put in struggling schools, but the real question is why the teachers’ unions have left so many open spots in these schools if they care so much?<\/span><\/p>\n

These schools are understaffed and TFA provides a viable solution to that problem. Needy children are being provided with a decent education and if \u201ctraditionally trained\u201d teachers are supposedly superior to TFA teachers, then why aren\u2019t they coming to work in these schools? The teachers’ unions would rather these children go uneducated than have a non-union teacher, which speaks volumes of their greed and corruption.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When a private school sucks it closes down<\/p>\n

When a government school sucks it gets more money. https:\/\/t.co\/gj9uKpY98B<\/a><\/p>\n

— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) January 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n