By Victor | Published: November 3, 2011
By Victor Skinner
EAG Communications
IMPERIAL, Neb. – Education Health Alliance, the health insurance provider for most Nebraska school employees, decided earlier this year to schedule a premium holiday for December because payments to the plan have outpaced claims.
That was welcome financial news for cash-strapped Nebraska schools that are struggling to provide benefits for employees while still [...]
By Victor | Published: October 31, 2011
By Steve Gunn
EAG Communications
OAKLAND, Calif. - Apparently we’ve reached a new low in public education.
School children, parents and taxpayers can only count on classes being taught if the teachers don’t have some political cause to march for that day.
It was sickening enough last winter, when the teachers in dozens of districts in [...]
By Ben | Published: July 8, 2011
Districts can no longer afford huge raises for teachers prior to retirement
It’s easy to understand why Illinois teachers unions constantly push for tax increases.
They want school districts to keep funding their perks, even in times of economic emergency.
And what expensive perks they have, particularly in some districts.
In Cary District 26, for example, teachers have been [...]
By Victor | Published: December 20, 2010
It’s a union nightmare: capping taxes could force schools, governments to re-examine spending
A coalition of labor groups in New York, including New York State United Teachers, already are taking aim at Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to cap property taxes two weeks before the Democrat takes office.
New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, an advocacy group [...]
