>Santa Fe South, whose teachers are on a one-year renewable contract, can remove incompetent instructors more easily than Capitol Hill, where teachers are union

>Santa Fe South, whose teachers are on a one-year renewable contract, can remove incompetent instructors more easily than Capitol Hill, where teachers are unionized. It seems to me that this is probably the most important distinction (though not the only one, of course). There were some unbelievably bad teachers in the town I grew up in, and my town was ranked #14 in NJ in 2006 (I left that school system in 2002, but from my younger siblings I know it can't have improved much). Teacher quality makes or breaks an education.