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They made a distinctly odd couple. There was Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers and leader of the five-week New York City teachers' strike in 1968, standing beside President Reagan, whom Shanker had bitterly opposed in the 1980 election. Reagan is dedicated to granting tuition tax credits for private schooling and is determined to cut federal aid to public education. The A.F.T. is strongly opposed to both ideas. Indeed, just the day before Reagan's address last week in Los Angeles, Shanker issued a report card on the President and gave...
...mood of the delegates at the N.E.A. meeting was defensive. Said outgoing N.E.A. President Willard McGuire: "We've often been accused of speaking to our self-interests, seeking to reduce our work loads or increase our association's membership. That's a lot of malarkey." Shanker might have been warning the N.E.A. not to dig in its heels when he told his own convention, "We are living in dangerous times. Education is under attack...
...A.F.T. convention was Tennessee's Governor Lamar Alexander, a Republican, who has proposed a sweeping merit-pay plan for his state. It would create four career stages, ultimately allowing "master" teachers to earn 60% more than the base salary. The A.F.T. gave Alexander a standing ovation, and Shanker endorsed "the freshness of the idea that deserves a hearing...
Union leaders reacted angrily to Reagan's proposals. The N.E.A. said the President was making a "disgraceful assault" on the teaching profession. Albert Shanker, president of the 600,000-member American Federation of Teachers, lambasted the President's views on education as "embarrassing and destructive." But over a lunch of shrimp salad at the White House last week, Reagan and the feisty union leader had a convivial talk and, in a coup for the President, Shanker said he was willing to explore different methods of compensation for teachers. "Ronald Reagan has been a disaster," he said...
...regarded as the conventional wisdom of the past five years. It gives these ideas the kind of respect they deserve." The teachers unions also endorsed the overall goals, although they quickly cautioned that longer school days would have to be negotiated at the bargaining table. Said Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers: "We should make use of the time we already have by getting rid of Mickey Mouse courses and Mickey Mouse curriculums. If that doesn't work, enlarge the day and the year...