New York’s lavish pay, pension and health care plans pushed for by powerful teachers’ unions helped ramp up spending on school districts to a staggering $89 billion.
At the time, Dueñas announced that she planned to use her platform as Teacher of the Year to “go to bat for struggling students.” But soon afterward, Dueñas realized that she could no longer take a ...
“I would get notes about my kid, saying, ‘He’s not trying, he’s not giving us his best, he’s being defiant,’” Caroline said. “Well, he wasn’t being defiant. He didn’t know how to read.” ...