Union Vs Government

Education in the United States has be declining for the past 60 years is what some could say a known fact. As I look closer into the topic I see that even though there is an extreme lack of funding the system itself does need some reforming. I have this article from newsweek that had some experts on the debate of the teachers union vs the government education.

It's no wonder that people are looking for an entity to blame for school failures. But blaming unions for failing schools is like blaming the middle class for the recession. Our union's mantra is "what is good for kids and what is fair for teachers." If teachers' unions were to blame for failing schools, then places like Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, who have relatively few unionized teachers, would do much better than the states with the most densely unionized teachers—Massachusetts, New York, Maryland. But those are the states whose schools do best.

So there are problems to solve, one of which is poverty. And I would argue that having a strong union, an entity that will look at what is done right and what is wrong and solve things and change things, is the way to go. We need well-prepared and well-supported teachers, early-childhood education, and a focus on graduation. We find these elements in lots of different places, and the differences between the places that work and those that don't is good labor-management relations.

On this side of the argument it makes it sound like schools do better and do worst with teachers union. This seems to be a stupid way of arguing because all shes really saying is that unions don't make a difference in how schools perform. So I don't understand why they are rejecting government reform. The education system and unions are a very hostile place the more I dwell upon it.