Date: March 29, 2011
Host: Jim Schneider
Guest: Tracey Bailey
Tracey Bailey is the Director of Education Policy at the American Association of Educators. Bailey oversees all education and labor policy as it relates to education. He believes that teachers should have a choice in professional organizations and works with educational leaders nationwide to promote increased professionalism among educators.
Bailey served in the Florida Department of Education for four years as the State Coordinator for Education Reform and as the Director of Charter Schools and Public School Choice. In 1993 he was selected as the National Teacher of the Year.
Bailey realizes that unions have done some good things. However, he believes that to force a teacher to become part of a militant, partisan, special interest union for the privilege of having a job in the public sector is wrong. He views this as a law from a bygone industrial era and is glad to see laws doing away with forced union dues.
Instead, Bailey believes teachers want choice and AAE works to offer teachers a future in education where they will be free to control their careers, providing individual input into their own pay and benefit packages and making their own decision about use of time, resources, and teaching methodologies. From the history of private and public unions to charter schools to the debate over local vs. national control of education; these and many other aspects of education and what can be done to improve it are covered on this edition of Crosstalk.
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