ROBERT HOLLAND of the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank in Chicago, falsely suggested that we side with “mediocrity’’ in public education by opposing the Stand for Children ballot question (“Union fears ballot for way it would throw light on closed system,’’ Letters, Jan. 29). In fact, we have worked for quality schools since our founding 167 years ago.
These efforts speak for themselves: Our students are first in the country in both mathematics and English language arts. Most recently, we have been a leader in strengthening the teacher evaluation system to better identify struggling teachers and help them improve - or terminate them if they don’t. We object to the complex Stand for Children ballot question, which is seven pages long and has 11 different sections, because it would undermine that new evaluation system before it is even implemented.
