As long as you view public schools as assembly-line factories and consider teachers and students parts in a business plan, you will be wrong about which proposals offer the best hope for real education reform (“Randi Steps Up,” Editorial, July 20).

My proposal for community schools is not an either/or approach, as you make it seem. It is meant to do both – help children reach high standards and give our neediest children the level playing field to do it.

As for educators, the worst thing one could do is eliminate the due-process protections that let them take the risk to work with our neediest students.

There are many ways to pursue education reform without making teachers at-will employees. It’s sad that The Post backs proposals that treat teachers as adversaries of reform over those that actually seek to address the many and varied needs of children.

Randi Weingarten

President

American Federation

of Teachers

Manhattan