In writing about Chris Christie’s speech I mentioned something about teacher’s unions.  This is the convention week .. so I’ll deal with this in greater (and more entertaining depth) later on.  But just to put a bug in your ear … across the country we are seeing teacher’s unions and government education bureaucrats fight back more and more against school choice.  We’re spending, on average, $11,400 per year for each child in a government school, kindergarten through high school.  What are we getting?  Kids who can’t even fill out a job application or read an apartment lease.  Hell --- many of them can’t even make change.

In Georgia local school boards are fighting like hell to defeat an amendment to Georgia’s constitution that gives entities other than school boards – the state government, for instance – the right to approve charter schools.  The government education establishment went to court to defeat a state law that allowed this – so now the charter school proponents are going for an amendment.  Local school boards are threatened!  Why … they might actually have to develop schools that perform! 

In California they have “parent trigger” laws.  After a government school has received a failing grade for a number of consecutive years the parents can “pull the trigger” and transform that school into a charter school.  Just such an even has occurred in one California jurisdiction – but the local school board is refusing to allow the parents to proceed, even after a court ordered them to do so.  The school board chairman is saying that he will defy the court right up to the point of being arrested.

Parents need to wake up to this.  Stop worrying about bus stops, and start worrying about what happens to your children after they get to school.  The teachers unions and education establishment are fighting for their lives. Keep the pressure up.