Education standards in the public system have been plummeting over the last few years and California is no exception. The decline in achievement has been accompanied by a decline in teacher employment. The pandemic motivated many veteran teachers to take early retirement and the social agenda permeating public education has pushed many more sane educators out the public school system.

California is looking to increase the number of teachers in the state, and to that end the California Teachers Association has proposed a brilliant plan - get rid of assessment tests for prospective teachers altogether. ...

Why would the teachers union - an innately pro-Big-Government body - in a state with as dismal education outcomes as California, want to remove oversight by the state?