The Problem of Teachers' Unions

Like most trade unions, teachers’ unions are status quo organizations.  They hate change.  They are against merit pay, competency testing of teachers, standardized testing of students, parental authority, decentralization of school choice.  They are terrified of competition.

It is no wonder that the growth of educational unions correlates almost perfectly with the decline in the quality, and increase in cost, of public educations.


Linda Bowles, “Teachers’ unions are terrified of competition,” Creators Syndicate, 7/22/96