The images quickly cut from color footage of smiling students and teachers to black-and-white still photos of people standing up among assembled crowds and looking angry.
The New Jersey Education Association, AKA the “Teachers’ Union”, is universally regarded as the most powerful, influential, and formidable lobbying juggernaut in the state. Of course, by their lights, all the strong-arming is “for the children.” But, is it? Who really profits from the Education machine? The Children? Education in New Jersey? Or…..Hmmmmmmmmm. Listen:
Two unions say a tentative contract has been reached for teachers in the Newark public school system that is New Jersey's first to tie teacher pay to student performance.