Way to go Mr. President-Elect...time to kick the Teachers Unions to the curb

[bodyforlife]

This is music to my ears. Maybe CA can finally get on track with Education and stop being 47th in the country!

"Donald Trump continues to add to his cabinet. On Wednesday the president-elect announced his choice for education secretary: Betsy DeVos, a leader of the school choice movement and a prominent GOP donor from Michigan.


The daughter-in-law of Amway cofounder Richard DeVos — who Forbes estimates is worth $5.1 billion — she is currently chairman of the American Federation for Children. The organization promotes school vouchers, scholarship tax credit programs and education savings accounts".

 

[skoda]

Public Unions have always been a big pothole........


Hashing out the new contract between Chicago Public Schools and its teachers took 22 months and more than $1 million, with Chicago’s taxpayers directly paying at least $880,000 just in legal costs, a Sun-Times analysis shows. The bulk of the money, about $745,000, has been billed by the Franczek Radelet law firm, longtime lead negotiators for the school system, through Oct. 31. Another $135,000 was paid to the Jackson Lewis firm, longtime associates of CPS CEO Forrest Claypool; that firm was added to the talks by Claypool after he took the helm of CPS in mid-2015. The Chicago Teachers Union estimates it spent several hundred thousand dollars on its own, not only on lawyers but on other preparations for a planned October strike that was averted just minutes before a midnight deadline. ...

Unions fear state lawmakers will close public pensions

LANSING — Lawmakers may take action during the lame-duck session to force school workers and other public employees out of defined benefit pensions into 401(k)-style plans, though Republican leaders say no plans are finalized about what bills will move. Action on bills already introduced to force new school employees into 401(k)'s is one possibility. But some public employee unions are worried the Republican-controlled Legislature could go further than that before year's end, possibly closing some public pension systems at the state and local level, and curbing health care benefits for local government retirees. Unfunded liabilities in public pension plans in Michigan remains a huge issue, despite

 

[festeringZit]

Awesome choice!!!!

Make America Great Again!!!!!!

 

[Willie99]

school choice, it works

of course libtard nation hates the word "work", and all variations thereof

soon enough, the fucking idiots are going to say "work" is a racist expression

 

[KingEleven]

school choice, it works

of course libtard nation hates the word "work", and all variations thereof

soon enough, the fucking idiots are going to say "work" is a racist expression

this

 

[busterhyman]

school choice, it works

of course libtard nation hates the word "work", and all variations thereof

soon enough, the fucking idiots are going to say "work" is a racist expression

thought they already did