Teacher Unions Stonewalling Obama's Education Reforms

Politico reports that Obama's efforts to implement his "race to the top" education reform has faced resistance from Teacher Unions and state governments:

Teachers unions — usually stalwart Democratic supporters — are staging boycotts. The Massachusetts branch of the American Federation of Teachers shunned its state’s second application because it was fed up with being blamed for underperforming schools. The Colorado Education Association, a National Education Association affiliate, also withdrew its support because it felt the state’s education commissioner had thrown teachers under the bus.

“Bottom line, I have never seen a school turn around or do better with this kind of friction,” AFT President Randi Weingarten said. “That’s the status quo. The status quo is to point fingers.”