The respective churches have deliberately obstructed integrated schools, refusing to nominate people to sit on their boards, and jealously guarding their profitable privileges.
He makes vague references to "values" and denounces as anti-Christian bigots judges who obstruct prayer in schools.
Dr Kathy Fawcett Bristol Simon Hughess is wrong to assume that independent schools obstruct social mobility (No more Mr Nice Guy, 8 January).
He documents the growth of the New York City teachers' contract from 39 pages in 1962 to 200 today, along with work rules that can be used at every turn to obstruct principals from improving schools.
UNICEF and its partners will support participating governments in the region to achieve this vision by tackling the system level barriers obstructing marginalized children's school participation and learning.
The police wanted more information than someone who could only hear the disturbance could give, because a fence obstructed our view, and the school board office isn't very helpful at night or on weekends.
And unlike most OECD countries, America does not put better teachers in poorly performing schools, where teachers' unions often obstruct reform efforts.Not everything can be pinned on schooling.
"It shows a man who, more than a quarter century after Brown v. Board of Education, used the resources of his office in a divisive, single-minded fight to obstruct even voluntary desegregation of St . Louisschools," Mr. Neas said.
Any honest observer would acknowledge that unions do occasionally obstruct changes that are needed to improve schools, but so do superintendents (and chancellors), mayors, state legislatures and occasionally parents.
But it could just as credibly be argued that any effort to obstruct the creation or operation of charter schools might have the effect of adding potency to the call for vouchers.
