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if they're elected to fix a phony crisis, don't be shocked when when they invent phony fixes that make the problems we do have worse...,
2011-02-24 16:03:25
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capturing the benefits of unobserved differences in instructional quality...,
2011-02-25 14:25:34
unburying the lead:
It's not about pay cuts, education, or the teacher's union. It's public sector unions' existence, writ large:
Walker’s plan would require [Wisconsin state] workers to put 5.8 percent of their pay into their pensions (most pay less than 1 percent now), and would require them to pay at least 12.6 percent of health care premiums (most pay about 6 percent now). Union leaders said they would go along with those plans, but they wanted to remove provisions that would prohibit collective bargaining for issues beyond wages, limit pay raises to a certain level without special approval by public referendum and require unions to hold annual votes on whether they should remain in existence.
"We have been clear -- and I will restate this again today -- money issues are off the table," Mary Bell, the president of the Wisconsin Education Association Council, said on Sunday. "Public employees have agreed to Governor Walker’s pension and health care concessions, which he says will solve the budget challenge."
So I don't know why so much of the coverage presents this as a fight between governor and the teachers' union. The teachers already raised the white flag and the governor is demanding a massacre.
:: posted by buermann @ 2011-02-24 18:53:33 CST |
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