Turns out not everyone’s afraid of the big bad wolves in the teachers union. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and his education chief last week launched a tag-team assault on seniority-based teacher layoffs, a holy heifer for organized labor. The “last in, first out” rules are “bad for kids, bad for parents, and bad for the teaching profession,” said Education Commissioner Christopher Cerf. Too bad New York is being left in the LIFO lurch. While Cerf and Christie spoke, New York Education Commissioner David Steiner and Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch were still neck-deep in a kowtow they made to the...
