Solid article here by a teacher that covers a lot of ground. None of these issues are as simple as they seem and claiming that somehow teacher tenure produces inequality is illogical and a misreading of how schools actually operate.

I had never heard this before:

But U.S. education spending data includes teacher pensions, and teachers don’t get Social Security, so our pensions aren’t actually as generous as they seem.

Is that true? Really?

Update: Some California teachers do not pay into social security and therefore do not receive these benefits.