I'd like someone to tell me how it is possible to be a liberal and not support striking teachers.

[HiPointDem]

57. 16% is a bargaining position that carries with it, e.g. higher employee payments for health benefits

and the 'make-up' for previously contracted raises that were rescinded.

As we know by taking the 'average' of my pay + bill gates', averages are not a reliable guide to what the 'average' worker actually gets. That 'average' also includes overtime, extra duties, and is right-skewed by proportion of long-timers in the system.

Both newspapers are no guide to what 'public sentiment' about the strike is. The papers represent their owners.

The trib, for example, was the long-time mouthpiece of the mccormick family (mccormick reaper/international harvester) and was sold in 2007 to sam zell's tribune company, $3 billion in revenues, also owns the LA Times.

The union is not blocking any attempt to measure their effectiveness in any way. They are blocking an attempt to measure their effectiveness *mainly* by student test scores in a district that is overwhelmingly poor & minority.

privatized schools are what are being created. thus far, they cost as much or more as public schools (albeit more of the money goes to private players, less to teachers & students), & the results are no better.