Modeling themselves on industrial unions, they fought successfully for better and more equitable salaries, job security, and improved working conditions, such
as limits on class size.
Faced with shortages due to
new limits on class size, the district offered provisional certification to candidates who promised to take five education courses over three years and participate in a beginning teacher program.
Even without the constraint
of limits on class size, trying to retrofit an outdated model of teaching is a fool's errand.