…tells you all you need to know about the teachers unions’ stranglehold on the Democratic party. The follow-up should be “Name an aspect of American education that has improved since the teachers unions’ ascendancy in the early 1960s.”

Also, Biden’s answer about “merit pay” for additional education is bogus. Public educational systems wrongly reward advanced degrees REGARDLESS of what it means for the teacher. If you’re a gym teacher and you get an MBA your salary goes up, even though having an MBA is completely irrelevant to what you teach — this is a real problem. And let’s not get started on mail order degrees being used to justify pay increases…