首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
A remarkable thing happened in New York recently: the state legislature, in effect, turned down the chance to win $700 million i
A remarkable thing happened in New York recently: the state legislature, in effect, turned down the chance to win $700 million i
admin
2017-06-29
35
问题
A remarkable thing happened in New York recently: the state legislature, in effect, turned down the chance to win $700 million in federal money. No one does that, except extremely conservative Southern governors—oh, and occasionally teachers’ unions. A few years ago, the Detroit union forced the local government to reject a $200 million charitable gift to build 15 charter schools, using a model that was already succeeding in the city. And now we have New York’s United Federation of Teachers (UFT), hindering the state’s attempt to file an application that might have won $700 million in federal education funds—and again the issue is charter schools, with a substantial amount of teacher responsibility thrown in.
The New York teachers’ union was launched in 1960 and led in the early years by the smartest and toughest union man I’ve ever met, Albert Shanker. The teachers are among the most powerful interest groups in New York State. The UFT’s slogan is "A Union of Professionals," but it is quite the opposite: an old-fashioned industrial union that has won for its members a set of work rules more appropriate to factory hands. There are strict rules about pay, school assignment, length of the school day and year. In New York, it is near impossible to fire a teacher—even one accused of a crime or drug addiction. The teachers are hiding in "rubber rooms" at full pay, for years, while the union pleads their cases. In New York, school authorities are forbidden, by state law, to evaluate teachers by using student test results.
Toward the end of his life, Shanker began to realize the union was headed down the wrong path. In a 1993 speech, he talked about the need for more responsibility: "... we are at the same point that the auto industry was at a few years ago. They could see they were losing market share every year and still not believe that it really had anything to do with the quality of the product... I think that we will get—and deserve—the end of public education through some sort of privatization (私有化) scheme if we don’t behave differently."
In the end, the challenge has come not from privatization—but in the form of public charter schools, in which individual entrepreneurs are chartered by states to create their own schools. The successful charters usually have longer school days and years, more intense efforts to guide student behavior, more creative or theme-oriented curriculums and more aggressive evaluation of teachers.
What do we know about the 15 charter schools in Detroit?
选项
A、They were to be built for charitable purposes.
B、They were creating a successful model in Detroit.
C、The local teachers’ union refused to have them built.
D、The Detroit union thought they would not be successful.
答案
C
解析
结合第1段第2句末尾可以推断本句提到的the Detroit union应该是指底特律当地的教师联合会,该句讲到,the Detroit union迫使地方政府拒绝用2亿美元慈善基金建立15所特许学校,即底特律的教师联合会不同意建造那15所特许学校,因此,本题应选C。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/fcNFFFFM
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
Everybody’sultimategoalinlifeistobesuccessfulandhappy.Eachperson’s【B1】______ofsuccessisdifferent.Manypeoplef
A、Alargeamountofmoneywasdonatedbyanunknownplayer.B、Aschoolfellowraisedmillionsofdollarsfortheconstruction.C、
It’smyhonortobeheretonight.OurorganizationiscalledtheNoiseAbatementSocietythatmonitorsandtriestodealwit
Clearlyifwearetoparticipateinthesocietyinwhichwelivewemustcommunicatewithotherpeople.【B1】______communicating
Clearlyifwearetoparticipateinthesocietyinwhichwelivewemustcommunicatewithotherpeople.【B1】______communicating
A、Blackdoctorsweren’tallowedtousemedicalequipment.B、Blackdoctorswerehatedbypatients.C、Blacksweren’tallowedtodo
“裸婚”(nakedmarriage)一词由中国网民杜撰,指男女双方在没有房、没有车、没有婚戒甚至婚礼的情况下选择结婚。配偶双方只需要花9元领取两张证明其婚姻合法的结婚证。在中国,越来越多的80后一代(post-80sgeneration)选择“裸婚”
民间禁忌(folktaboo)是人类社会普遍存在的文化现象。在中国,饮食、婚嫁、居住、社交等方面都有禁忌。有些禁忌有利于人际交往,应该提倡和发扬。比如,在宴席上,主人不能先于客人吃饭,而客人也不能未请先动。而有些禁忌是迷信的,迷惑了人的思想、束缚了人的行
AfterSusanJoycewaslaidoff,shewashorrifiedtohearoftwosuicidesinherlayoffgroup.Suchcasesmaysound【C1】______,b
AfterSusanJoycewaslaidoff,shewashorrifiedtohearoftwosuicidesinherlayoffgroup.Suchcasesmaysound【C1】______,b
随机试题
既能息风止痉,又能祛风止痛、化痰散结的药物是
临床实践中,以下情况提示患者可能有意识障碍,但不包括哪项
终末血尿的血液来自
电路如下图所示,已知U=30V,R1=60,R2=R31=40Ω,L=6H,开关S闭合前电路处于稳态,S闭合后的瞬间,R1的端电压U1等于()。
根据劳动合同相关法律的规定,下列情形中,用人单位不得解除劳动合同的是()。
作为世界上人口最多的国家,我国必须立足自身解决粮食安全问题,要牢牢把饭碗端在自己手里。要保障我国粮食安全,下列哪项行为最有效?
有下列命令按钮控件test的单击事件过程:PrivateSubtest_click()DimI,RR=0ForI=1To5Step1R=R+INextIbResult.
有一个数是123,它与十六进制数53相等,那么该数值是
Exactlywherewewillstandinthelongwaragainstdiseasebytheyear2050isimpossibletosay.(111)Butifdevelopmentsin
HeLedaUsefulLifeBenjaminFranklinwould.seemrightathomeamongusifhewerealivetoday.Infact,hedidalottos
最新回复
(
0
)