Teachers Unions Win Again

The teachers unions have prevailed once again in their quest to keep American students less educated than their non-American counterparts.  The feckless American education system has been deteriorating for a long time, with American students falling further and further behind.  No Child Left Behind was the best hope for improving American education to emerge in many years.  It was instituted in the Bush years and supported by the Obama administration (one of the too few good accomplishments of that administration).  But relentless lobbying by the teachers unions has now succeeded in forcing a wary and weary Congress and a beaten-down President to agree to gutting No Child Left Behind.  This is a sad day for  American education.