We could really pull the rug out from under the teachers’ unions with one policy; yearly literacy tests for government school teachers.
The state of New York recently passed a law requiring prospective school teachers to take a literacy test to get their license, but repealed it the following year because 36 percent of whites, 54 percent of Hispanics and 59 percent of blacks failed on the first try.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/nyregion/ny-regents-teacher-exams-alst.html
If every state required this we would get rid of half the teachers’ union members in one fell swoop, and most of the remaining teachers would vote to decertify their unions in a heartbeat.
That test was probably a 6th grade reading level test.
I worked for a school district that once had a basic reading and math test - nothing past 6th grade level.
Rates of passage were similar to New York - the state had to abolish it, after every Marxist organization called it “racist” and that it “didn’t measure what a teacher needs to know in order to teach” (not kidding).