The late and revered Steve Jobs, himself a university dropout, said this about teachers unions in 1995: The (teachers) unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened. The teachers can't teach, and administrators run the place, and nobody can be fired. It's terrible." He advocated a voucher system to bring competition into education.

On the other hand, the guru of policy governance John Carver is supposed to have said that school boards were the worst governing bodies of all.

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