Regaining our Panama Canal and dropping the Department of Education

In 1966 I graduated from Clarion State University with a degree in English teaching. I taught 14-year-olds grammar, Shakespeare, advanced writing. Many of them went on to become very successful. A couple of went on to be Mega Millionaires! But after a couple of years I left teaching because I discovered that although my students excelled in the New York Regents Test, the teachers who had been there longer than I got paid a lot more. Even though their students didn’t score nearly so well! ...