Obama says he supports merit pay (while never quite coming out and calling it that) and “replacing teachers not up to the job.” The promise would be more plausible if he had ever had a real knock-down, drag-out fight with the teachers’ unions in his career. He hasn’t.
His past vague references to merit pay while addressing teacher’s unions were derided as “whispering truth to power.”
When push comes to shove, does anyone really think that a President Obama would defy the NEA and AFT?