I have always admired the teachers' unions for their success in hoodwinking the American public into believing that throwing more money at schools will improve education results.  (Most of the extra money goes to teachers' compensation, a fact that the unions cleverly bury.)  The statistics show again and again that educational quality doesn't improve with increased funding.  The latest example was pointed out by Jason Riley in this morning's WSJ.  While per pupil spending rose nationally by an inflation adjusted 18% between 2000 and 2015, it fell in cash strapped Arizona.  Yet on 2015 federal standardized exams, Arizona made more progress than any other state. 

To prevent any serious consideration of the realities of school funding, the teachers' unions fall back on a tried and true tactic:  attacking the messenger, in this case that evil Betsy DeVos. 

The hypocrisy of the greenies is boundless.

The lake association that takes care of our little lake here in western Mass has been fighting eutrophication for years.  Since winter drawdowns are difficult and harvesting generally ineffective, we've started using weed killing chemical applications.  The chemicals are so safe that after one day you can swim and after three days you can drink the water.  They also don't work as well as we'd like, but something is better than nothing.

But the anti-chemical greenies believe that all chemicals are bad, so they remonstrate, often loudly. We mollify them by a simple trick:  We tell them we're killing only the "bad" weeds, the ones that are "invasive species."  The inanity of that distinction escapes the greenies, which says a lot about their principles - or lack thereof. 

Too bad it's not so easy to deal with lots of the rest of their often irrational agenda.