farmer brown know what we want. the hens organize and scratch out a contract with the details including each hen will lay average a four a week. they stand up to farmer brown. you have to recognize the union hens unite the storp store has a happy ending. farmer brown in and signs the board. we won and we stuck together and we won. it means yes, we can. this skit was put together by the california federation of teachers suggested suitable for elementary grades k-3. it is a example of teacher unions promoting indoctorination. and one of the reasons they are failing education. joining me is the author of
will have in her entire k-12. i mean, there is like you said, we know who the good teachers are, who the bad teachers are, and as long as the unions stand in the way of figuring out a way to grade those teachers, we re going to have this battle. what do you do about the demographics that are involved in here? in terms of grading teachers? in large urban states, new jersey s a large urban state, there are, i would assume, many schools where the kids go to school, that s the safest place they ll be all day, that s the only place they ll get a hot meal all day. and to take those test scores of those kids. here s what you do, mike. here s the way we ve proposed our plan, you judge based on upon improvement not to a raw score. if they come in with a group of kids who are challenged, maybe you didn t have a good education k-3, you got them in the fourth grade and they re reading at a first grade level. what we re looking for is
field, and our students can do very, very well going forward. mike barnicle. okay, mr. secretary, i m not going to ask you about harvard basketball today. thank god. but i am going to ask you to stick with the points that you just raised in terms of early childhood education. we talk a lot about high school dropout rates with the truancy rate leading up to high school just predicts the doctropout ra. what are you going to be able to do about young people coming out of college who want desperately to go and teach like in the toughest schools, inner-city schools, and they can t do it because of union restrictions or union roadblocks? what are you going to do about getting more people in k-2, k-3 to help rescue these kids? i ve even expand it and say pre-k through 12. right now, due to the tough local budgets, it s a tough time in terms of hiring. but as we look out four, five, six years, we anticipate as many as 1 million teachers retiring. the baby boomer generation moving tow