They look forward to 'pain' and a 'day of reckoning' for schools

While schools hope for the best and prepare for the worst, Fordham think-tankers Chester Finn & Mike Petrilli, writing in the National Review, are calling for more pain, more lay-offs, and bigger class sizes. They attack Obama for trying to "placate...union bosses," and predict failure for his economic stimulus, and education program, which they claim will "fail in the market for educational reform."

In other words, for all the “pain” he’s asking Americans to share, where’s the pain for the education system? ...When will the “day of reckoning” arrive for our schools?