[snugs]

His plan is to reward the good teachers and get rid of the bad ones. Sounds like a good plan to me. But, heaven forbid a bad teacher should ever be fired.

Sounds like the same problems are universal since we have introduced testing of children and made results of each school available there has been so much opposition from the National Union of Teachers. One is amazed because surely no good teacher has anything to fear they will get rewarded with pay/promotion and the bad teachers will be either released or if the school has problems recruiting and has to keep them at least they will not be rewarded for bad teaching.

[Mama_Bear]

Yes, it is a most frustrating problem and apparently not just our problem. California schools are a dismal failure and EVERYONE wants them fixed.....until someone actually identifies the real problems and tries to fix them. The conservatives want the waste stopped and the dead wood weeded out, the liberals want more money dumped into the system.

I think that our Governor may have been a bit naive thinking he could take on the teacher's union, but I have faith in him. He truly is trying to straighten out the mess that the liberals have created in this state.