The premise is a false memory or deliberately misleading. There was never a bipartisan consensus to weaken teachers unions. That is hardly a centrist position.

The premise is a false memory or deliberately misleading. There was never a bipartisan consensus to weaken teachers unions. That is hardly a centrist position. it is a conservative position and just another example of how far to the right conservatives have shifted. Meanwhile there is hardly any representation for a truly leftist position. It's centrist at best. >The left basically just wants to throw money at the schools, not ask too many questions about outcomes, and give the teachers unions what they want. No, the actual left is all about analyzing outcomes. They are the ones who have written the only effective social programs, so they ought to know. There is so much about this that is pure speculation and rose-colored spectacle gazing at "free market" (which charter schools aren't) claptrap.