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Pharaoh

(8,209 posts)
Thu Sep 11, 2014, 07:56 PM Sep 2014

Lawsuit challenging Madison teacher contracts is politically motivated, says One Wisconsin Now Read

This is outrageous hypocrisy when you consider them sucking money out of the public school system to private schools> Their evil truly knows no bounds!


A lawsuit accusing the Madison School Board of engaging in illegal collective bargaining to the detriment of children and taxpayers was filed by a Milwaukee-based conservative legal group that is a “front” for Gov. Scott Walker, says the director of a Madison progressive advocacy group.

“It is absolutely politically motivated,” said Scot Ross, executive director of One Wisconsin Now. And it doesn’t matter that the lawsuit does not call out school board member Mary Burke — Walker’s opponent in the November election — by name, Ross says.

“This is the entity on which Burke serves,” Ross says. “Just last week, Walker started talking about Madison not taking advantage of the ‘tools’ of Act 10, then suddenly we have a lawsuit paid for by a foundation run by Walker’s campaign co-chair.”

On Sept. 3, Walker accused Burke of not harnessing the money-saving potential of Act 10 to help close the achievement gap that sees black students lagging behind white students

Read more: http://host.madison.com/news/local/writers/pat_schneider/lawsuit-challenging-madison-teacher-contracts-is-politically-motivated-says-one/article_23999c6e-39d7-11e4-89c7-f31fdcd44851.html#ixzz3D3RfyqFs


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Lawsuit challenging Madison teacher contracts is politically motivated, says One Wisconsin Now Read (Original Post) Pharaoh Sep 2014 OP
Let me get this straight.... Half-Century Man Sep 2014 #1
basically yes he's saying Pharaoh Sep 2014 #2
"Illegal collective bargaining"? What makes it illegal? Act 10 removed the right to bargain ... Scuba Sep 2014 #3

Half-Century Man

(5,279 posts)
1. Let me get this straight....
Thu Sep 11, 2014, 10:13 PM
Sep 2014

This Koch head is trying to get political mileage out of someone not participating in his rape of the system, by blaming them for the symptoms of the ongoing raping of the system.

 

Pharaoh

(8,209 posts)
2. basically yes he's saying
Thu Sep 11, 2014, 10:34 PM
Sep 2014

I'm fucking you and I'm suing you because you don't like it...........

That is basically it........

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
3. "Illegal collective bargaining"? What makes it illegal? Act 10 removed the right to bargain ...
Fri Sep 12, 2014, 07:11 AM
Sep 2014

... but I'm not aware it made bargaining illegal.

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