Without collective bargaining, school boards have power to cut labor costs
There’s no question that Gov. Scott Walker’s budget repair legislation is working wonders for Wisconsin public schools.
Over the last few weeks we’ve heard that two school districts – Kaukauna and Fond du Lac – managed to go from potential deficit situations to balanced budgets by [...]
Unions have lost the PR-battle, leaving courts as their only hope for stopping meaningful reforms
Voters in several states recently elected governors and legislators who are determined to reform public education and increase educational opportunities for families and children.
Those officials have passed groundbreaking legislation to meet those goals, despite the opposition of teachers unions. [...]
Teachers who don’t give students their best effort should be immediately removed from the classroom
Teachers union leaders in the Kaukauna school district are obviously angry because the school board used a new state law to force them to pay a little more toward their health insurance and pension costs.
Now one of the lead [...]
Wisconsin students, school budgets rank low on their list of priorities
Who cares about children and public education in Wisconsin?
Gov. Scott Walker and his legislative allies have reduced aid to public schools, because the state is broke and its budget needs to be balanced. Some say taxes should be raised to maintain school funding at [...]
Budget repair law is helping districts dig out of financial hole caused by school employee unions
Yet another federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Gov. Scott Walker’s budget repair law has been filed by two public sector labor unions.
The unions hope to roll back the new limits on their collective bargaining privileges. If the [...]
Judge will hear case against open government hypocrite
Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne sued the Wisconsin legislature earlier this year over the passage of Gov. Scott Walker’s budget repair bill, citing government transparency issues.
He argued that a legislative committee did not post proper notice of its meeting before voting on Walker’s legislation.
“Transparency in government [...]
With collective bargaining obstruction removed, schools can cut labor costs, use savings for students
Public school officials throughout Wisconsin can move ahead with plans to minimize the impact of pending cuts in state aid, now that the state Supreme Court has dismissed a lower court’s restraining order preventing Gov. Scott Walker’s budget repair bill from [...]
State employee tries to sic IRS on education reform group
A new controversy related to the Madison protests has emerged. This one involves the taxpayer-funded email account of American Federation of Teachers-Wisconsin leader and Department of Workforce Development employee William Franks.
For reasons explained below, the Education Action Group submitted an open records request for [...]
Letter to Dane County District Attorney Ozanne 5.10.11
Letter to Dane County Executive Joseph Parisi 5.10.11
DANE COUNTY EXECUTIVE Kathleen Falk, Re_ Public Records Request
Open Records Request to Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne
Open Records Request to Dane County Executive Kathleen M. Falk
Executed Writ of Mandamus
Public sector unions demonstrate how wealthy special interests can dominate government
Why did the state of Wisconsin bother to have an election last November?
To look at the results, you would think the voters had spoken clearly. They elected a Republican governor and legislature, based on the promise that they would take strong action to balance the [...]
