Posted in Why Timmy can't read on Jun 26th, 2008 No Comments »
After you read this, you will want to barf on a liberal.
The state’s largest school employee union hired a Washington, D.C., consulting firm to craft a public relations strategy for limiting the expansion of charter schools in Delaware.
The firm represents some of the most extremist statist groups: Open Society Institute, National League of Cities, and [...]
Posted in Shut the eff up, Why Timmy can't read on Jun 17th, 2008 1 Comment »
Last night on World News Tonight, Barack Obama essentially said that school choice is a bad thing.
What is school choice?
A parent’s right to choose the best school for their kids, whether it be public or private.
Simple enough.
So, what’s his hang up?
Read the transcript below:
TAPPER: You talked about the need to change the status quo in [...]
Posted in Sweet, Why Timmy can't read on Jun 11th, 2008 No Comments »
The Wall Street Journal has a fantastic article responding to Democrats hatred towards parents.
Parents ability to escape terrible DC public schools.
Parents ability to access a scholarship program that helps them pay for a private education, when a public one is failing and the government can’t seem to provide any other viable options.
Screw unions. Screw democrats.
Down [...]
Posted in This is bullshit! on Mar 17th, 2008 No Comments »
MD teachers union is pushing a referendum that legalizes slot machines and gives half the proceeds to public schools. Same thing as NV.
According to them:
“Because of our state’s precarious fiscal outlook, if this referendum fails, students, teachers and support staff will be left with outdated facilities, larger classes, outdated textbooks and shortages of materials. School [...]
Posted in Fair Enough, This is bullshit! on Mar 13th, 2008 No Comments »
Under law, union strike the teachers union did two weeks is illegal. So, the Governor stuck it to them and revoked their certification. Awesome!
However.
Tomorrow, the union goes to the appeals court to argue that their certification should be reinstated.
As much, as I despise unions, they are going to win this at some point because [...]
Posted in Sweet on Mar 12th, 2008 2 Comments »
From the New York Post:
A national anti-union group [Center for Union Facts] has launched a $1 million campaign against bad teachers, seeking nominations for the 10 worst unionized instructors to receive $10,000 rewards if they agree to step down.
Why would any organization do this?
Critics have long said collective-bargaining agreements in many school districts make it [...]
Posted in Sweet on Mar 11th, 2008 2 Comments »
The gaming industry sued and won against the teachers union.
Celebrate good times, come on.
The union decided to submit a ballot initiative that would increase business taxes from 6.75% to 9.75% for the purposes of paying teachers more.
However, a State Supreme Court Justice Mariam Shearing sided with the casinos, ruling that it’s OK to have [...]
Posted in Fair Enough on Mar 5th, 2008 4 Comments »
The ten-day teachers strike in Puerto Rico ended. The union will continue to demand higher wages and better working conditions.
Mainstream media keeps portraying teachers in the island as being paid low wages in comparison to mainland salaries but media bias won’t tell you the whole story.
I did a little research and look, what I found [...]
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