How Education Reform Can Solve America’s Budget Problems – Larry Sand, President of the California Teachers Empowerment Network (GNSD)

February 09, 2012, 6:00pm

Summary:

Larry Sand visited with Members of Gen Next to discuss how reforming teachers unions, school choice and tenure/salary reform can aid in solving some of the country’s most difficult fiscal issues.

Detail:

Here are the key takeaways:

• 300,000 students a year are assigned a "bad" teacher
• Opportunities to improve education system in U.S. are with charter schools and vouchers. Everywhere vouchers were tried there have been improvements
• Book recommendation: Special Interests: Teachers Unions and America's Public Schools by Terry Moe