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Source: Teacher Unions Targeted As Obstacle To Reform - News - nbc4i.com -

BOSTON -- An advocacy group is offering 10 public school teachers it deems the nation's worst $10,000 each to quit teaching.

The Center for Union Facts on Tuesday will launch a campaign arguing that teachers' unions block education reform such as teacher merit pay and impose union rules that make it virtually impossible to fire bad teachers. Teachers unions say the group is spreading misinformation.

The Washington-based nonprofit group is spending $1 million on ads and a billboard in New York's Times Square, and launching a Web site with data it says it collected from public records requests documenting what it considers to be the extreme lengths unions go to protect bad teachers.

It's also inviting nominations for a contest to determine the nation's worst unionized teachers. The "winners" will be offered $10,000 each if they permanently resign or retire from any career in education - if they sign a release agreeing to have their name and the reasons for their selection published by the group.