IT'S A W THING:

New merit-pay bill will revolutionize teaching profession (Mike Thomas, 3/05/11, Orlando Sentinel)

This time there will be no Charlie Crist to save teachers from the Republicans.

One of Charlie's last acts as governor was vetoing the infamous Senate Bill 6, which would have tied teacher pay and job security to student test scores. Teachers and their unions cheered, but I knew it was a short-lived victory. The unions are on the wrong side of history.

A new bill has been filed, and Rick Scott will sign it.

This is one of those moments in history. Teaching is transitioning from a unionized, assembly-line employment model to a professional, results-oriented model.

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This started out as a Jeb Bush thing.

And it grew into a Barack Obama thing.

Jeb lost in '94. His brother got to be the Education revolutionary.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 6, 2011 11:16 AM