by Bill Korach. www.thereportcard.org

President Obama claims to be the president who cares about education, but more and more, he’s the president that cares about Teacher’s Union votes and campaign money. So which is Mr. President, the unions or the students? Pick one.

2012’s high school seniors have the worst SAT reading score since 1972; they scored 486 on reading, out of a possible 800. In writing, students also dropped dramatically, down to 488. That’s a nine-point drop since 2006.

The American College of Testing (ACT), a competitor of SAT said that this year, only 25% of seniors taking the test were prepared to do college level work inmath, science, English and writing.