It’s Time To Listen To Teachers On Issues Of Education

Commentary
By John A. Ostenburg
The Outpost Observer

Why is it that the last people listened to regarding problems in public education are the ones who deal with it on the front line day after day?

Chicago’s Renaissance 2010 education plan came onto the charts back in 2004. Immediately, classroom teachers pointed out its many flaws. Were they listened to? Of course not. Instead, Mayor Richard M. Daley and now U.S. Secretary of Education —…