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Originally posted by Spanky
Testing and small class sized seem like a no brainer to me, but in California smaller class sizes has no support from either side of the aisle. This is not a partisan thing, just no one supports it.
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I would suggest that one reason that teachers' unions seem to have so much influence is that educational policy is hard, abstruse stuff, and that people who care in the abstract about the issue have a hard time figuring out how to translate their interest into political action. I would vote for political candidates who were going to improve the schools, but I don't think they (a) know how to do it, and (b) know how to sell that in a political campaign.
This leaves the field wide open for the unions to assert their own self-interest.
