Teachers! McCain's Your Guy!
This is a terribly awkward issue to raise at this moment, but the 3,000 teachers from the American Federation of Teachers who recently left Chicago after their convention made the same mistake as the 9,000 teachers from the National Education Association who met earlier in Washington. They ... well, they endorsed the wrong guy for president.
The top goal of both teachers’ unions is driving a stake into the federal No Child Left Behind Act. That stake, however, is far more likely to get pounded in by John McCain than by Barack Obama, who won the overwhelming endorsement of both unions.
Wait, you’re thinking, even if that’s true (and I’ll shortly explain why it is true), surely the other education positions embraced by McCain are so objectionable, at least from the perspective of a teachers’ union, that a McCain...
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