[Updated several times from 9/1/17] The divide-and-conquer sneaky, partisan and giddly disrespectful Walker "dropped the bomb" on the teaching profession, and the consequences are unfolding:
Where government pits educators against parents, conservationists against business and blue-collar workers against public employees?
Here's a summary post with more than 65 links to Foxconn stories, items and commentaries.
9/4 Update: Walker has claimed that his proposed 2017-'19 state budget contains an historic increase in education funding - - a claim rated "mostly false" by Politifact - - and the sum for schools which he has proposed to add does not fully replace education dollars he he'd previously cut from state budgets as part of his attack on teaching and teachers:
9/27/17 Update - - Walker vetoed from the budget an Assembly provision that would have added revenue to lower-income school districts. His real motivation was to punish Assembly leaders for having held up the budget. Talk about a vindictive politician.
Again, who pays the price?
After Act 10 was passed, [teacher] Ferrell-Huber found herself emotionally burned-out and unsure of the future in a state she tells TODAY'S TMJ4 she felt no longer respected her. That's when Ferrell-Huber walked away. She's just one in a trend of fewer teachers in Wisconsin.
"The problem is that the pipeline behind them isn't filled," said Alan Shoho, the Dean of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He said the school's enrollment is down from historical numbers. He tells us jobs that once had 120 candidates before Act 10 now fall closer to 20.
"We can talk about compensation, we can talk about working conditions, but I boil it down to this one word and it's respect," he said. He feels the lack of respect has caused detrimental changes in teacher education.Is this where the Foxconn workforce wants to raise the kids?
Where government pits educators against parents, conservationists against business and blue-collar workers against public employees?
Here's a summary post with more than 65 links to Foxconn stories, items and commentaries.
9/4 Update: Walker has claimed that his proposed 2017-'19 state budget contains an historic increase in education funding - - a claim rated "mostly false" by Politifact - - and the sum for schools which he has proposed to add does not fully replace education dollars he he'd previously cut from state budgets as part of his attack on teaching and teachers:
In the second year of the biennium, the state’s share of K-12 funding will rise to 64.6 percent (the rest comes from property taxes and federal aid). That’s the highest since 2009 after dropping below 62 percent in 2012, when Walker cut $782 million from public schools — which was largely absorbed by teachers forced to pay higher pension and health insurance premiums.9/6 Update - - Walker takes to Twitter to amplify an education record filled with whitewash and distortion.
9/27/17 Update - - Walker vetoed from the budget an Assembly provision that would have added revenue to lower-income school districts. His real motivation was to punish Assembly leaders for having held up the budget. Talk about a vindictive politician.
Again, who pays the price?
