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12-28-2004, 11:52 AM
Does Public Education Need a Witness Protection Program?
Written By: David W. Kirkpatrick
Published In: School Reform News
Publication Date: January 1, 2005
Publisher: The Heartland Institute
<HR>In Spring 2004, the Texas office of Americans for Prosperity initiated the Educators Witness Protection Program Web site to allow individual educators, taxpayers, and others to report instances of alleged wasteful spending in the public school system without being subject to harassment or reprisals. The need for some kind of protection for witnesses to school excesses was highlighted recently in Casselberry, Florida by reports of how a parent who complained about the cruelty of a special education teacher was intimidated into silence by a threatening letter from the teacher union.
The special education teacher, Kathleen Garrett, was arrested in November on nine counts of child abuse, four years after the parent's complaint was muzzled.
The Rest of the Article Here:
The Heartland Institute - Does Public Education Need a Witness Protection Program? - by David W. Kirkpatrick (http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=16172)
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And why SHOULDN'T schools and school systems be accountable for their financial waste, unnecessary expenditures, and the revealing of unfit teachers? Because schools are a MONEY-MAKER for the state -- they are NOT about childhood education, but the teachers, the unions, the government bureaucracy, the funding, the additional departments, workers, aides, etc.
Written By: David W. Kirkpatrick
Published In: School Reform News
Publication Date: January 1, 2005
Publisher: The Heartland Institute
<HR>In Spring 2004, the Texas office of Americans for Prosperity initiated the Educators Witness Protection Program Web site to allow individual educators, taxpayers, and others to report instances of alleged wasteful spending in the public school system without being subject to harassment or reprisals. The need for some kind of protection for witnesses to school excesses was highlighted recently in Casselberry, Florida by reports of how a parent who complained about the cruelty of a special education teacher was intimidated into silence by a threatening letter from the teacher union.
The special education teacher, Kathleen Garrett, was arrested in November on nine counts of child abuse, four years after the parent's complaint was muzzled.
The Rest of the Article Here:
The Heartland Institute - Does Public Education Need a Witness Protection Program? - by David W. Kirkpatrick (http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=16172)
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And why SHOULDN'T schools and school systems be accountable for their financial waste, unnecessary expenditures, and the revealing of unfit teachers? Because schools are a MONEY-MAKER for the state -- they are NOT about childhood education, but the teachers, the unions, the government bureaucracy, the funding, the additional departments, workers, aides, etc.