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Related: About this forumLawsuit 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 doesnt matter that the lawsuit does not call out school board member Mary Burke Walkers 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 Walkers 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
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Lawsuit challenging Madison teacher contracts is politically motivated, says One Wisconsin Now Read (Original Post)
Pharaoh
Sep 2014
OP
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)1. Let me get this straight....
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
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 ...
... but I'm not aware it made bargaining illegal.