The Times Union lets down teachers and children again

I was very disappointed in the Times Union’s stance on the teacher’s merit pay bill. I didn’t expect the T.U. to dislike the bill because teachers are overwhelmingly against it. I didn’t expect the T.U. to dislike the bill because all the evidence points to merit pay not working. I didn’t expect the T.U. to dislike the bill because its parameters are very broad and potentially unfair. I didn’t even expect the T.U. to dislike the bill because it takes away even more local control. In my opinion the paper has been on the wrong side of those issues for months now.

I however did expect the Times Union to dislike the bill because it isn't paid for. It is an unfunded mandate that is going to cost school districts billions of dollars, given to school districts at the same time their education budgets are being slashed by billions. Unfunded mandates is an issue that the Times Union has come out against.

So Times Union which is it? Are you for unfunded mandates or not. This is a one question test and as you wrote, life is full of them.