While there’s been a lot of attention in Georgia to the charter school amendment passage, there were major education issues decided elsewhere in the country.
John I. Wilson, a long-time special education teacher and former executive director of the National Education Association, wrote about some of them in his Education Week blog.
In his essay, Wilson says these votes show that the public trusts its teachers.
Here is an excerpt but please read the full blog over at Ed Week.
To illustrate this, let’s look at one of the reddest states in America, Idaho. The voters were not fooled by misleading slogans like “Students Come First” or the rhetoric of Tom Luna, state superintendent of public instruction. They rejected three recently passed state laws that rolled back collective bargaining rights, implemented merit pay based on standardized test scores, and established laptops and online credits at the expense of teachers and reasonable class size. Voters listened to