Looks like the MTA-NEA stranglehold on the crooked leftists (Dems) running Beacon Hill is complete, with yet another shameful piece of grovelling to the Teachers union that always gives Massachusetts taxpayers and their children less and less, and always extorts more and more for it. Checked out the MTA website and discovered 25 pages more of these taxpayer swindles on their legislative action section in the works designed to screw Massachusetts taxpayers and their children even harder.

Remember this when you see these racketeers "protesting" on the rotary because they're not being allowed to destroy the city as rapidly as they deem fit.


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Senate provides certification waiver for failing teacher hopefuls

4/4/2008, 7:56 a.m. EDT The Associated Press

BOSTON (AP) - The state Senate has approved a bill that would allow aspiring teachers who flunk the certification test three times to possibly teach anyway.

The law would provide a waiver that could lead to certification,

The teaching candidates who failed three times would have to have come close to passing at least once.

Senate Republicans ridiculed the legislation, which still needs approval from the House and Governor Patrick.

Senator Bruce Tarr asked how the state can expect students to have a minimum level of knowledge when they don't expect the same from teachers.

But Senate Democrats said it would just allow teachers to be assessed on a broader basis so talented instructors aren't denied jobs.

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