During the online “Overtime” segment of Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that teachers’ unions, not lack of funding are the problem in public schools.
\n\n“Conversations w/Coleman” host and Free Press columnist Coleman Hughes stated, “I think people on the left want to blame funding, because that’s the easy issue. … The problem isn’t the funding, it’s that you can’t fire anyone bad.”
\n\nMaher responded, “Yes. … The problem is, the union, the teachers’ union is too powerful. We’ve seen it in results, in states where the union is less powerful, the schools do better.”
\n\nMaher added, “The unions protect the bad schools and bad teachers and the party protects the union. It’s almost impossible, in a lot of these cities, to fire a teacher.”
\n\nMaher further stated, “It’s not money. That’s what you always hear from the left, oh, it’s underfunded. It’s not the funding. The funding isn’t the issue.”
\n\nMaher then said, “I think this is the kind of thing I will never hear on MS NOW.”
\n\nMS NOW host Ali Vitali responded that the network has plenty of perspective and pointed to her speaking to Republicans.
\n\nMaher also agreed with Vitali that unions…
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