NEA on Race to the Top

With one week to go before the comment period expires, the National Education Association has weighed in on President Obama's Race to the Top program. According to Friday's Washington Post, they have some problems with it, to put it lightly:

"We find this top-down approach disturbing; we have been down that road before with the failures of No Child Left Behind,"the union wrote in its comments, "and we cannot support yet another layer of federal mandates that have little or no research base of success and that usurp state and local government's responsibilities for public education."

They also raise the issue of charter schools, citing their mixed results.

For all of Secretary Duncan's repeated profession of wishing to work with the teachers, most of his proposals so far have been very far from reflecting that. I'm glad the NEA got on this.

And have you weighed in on RTTT yet?