The country’s largest teachers’ union adopted a measure at its convention in Denver last week that called on Education Secretary Arne Duncan to resign. The Huffington Post reports:
A tipping point for some members was Duncan’s statement last month in support of a California judge’s ruling that struck down tenure and other job protections for the state’s public school teachers. In harsh wording, the judge said such laws harm particularly low-income students by saddling them with bad teachers who are almost impossible to fire.
Even before that, teachers’ unions have clashed with the administration over other issues ranging from its support of charter schools to its push to use student test scores as part of evaluating teachers.
Outgoing NEA president Dennis Van Roekel said that the vote was a “venting of frustration of too many things that are wrong.”
Duncan refused comment on Monday, but did say that his department “has had good relations with the NEA in the past.”
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