Title: Scott Walker Is Just Getting Started Source:
Big Government URL Source:http://N/A Published:Apr 21, 2011 Author:Kyle Olson Post Date:2011-04-21 17:37:37 by CZ82 Keywords:None Views:5690 Comments:9
Scott Walker Is Just Getting Started
by Kyle Olson
When Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker curtailed collective bargaining privileges for public sector workers (formerly known as public servants), it resulted in all-out political war in Madison.
Walker won the showdown, and now the state can get its financial house in order.
But that doesn’t mean Walker is done taking on the unions.
One of the governor’s next goals is to improve the state’s public education system by giving more kids access to quality schools. That means expanding Milwaukee’s wildly successful voucher program to even more families. And that means a raucous showdown with the teacher unions.
As part of his budget proposal, Walker wants to lift income restrictions on the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program so that families earning up to 325 percent of the federal poverty line would quality for vouchers, the School Reform News reports.
Walker also wants Milwaukee voucher students to have access to all private schools in Milwaukee County, not just those within the city.
The voucher program was established in 1990, and is the oldest program of its kind in the nation.
The reality is vouchers are working in places like Milwaukee and Washington, D.C. because it gives kids a way out — an alternative to the drop out factories known as public schools.
The Milwaukee voucher program has been enormously successful. EAGtv recently visited a school in Milwaukee that takes kids of all races, economic backgrounds and social classes and prepares them for life. The school, Eastbrook Academy, graduated its first high school class last spring, and reports that each graduate is currently studying in a four-year college program.
Those who value “social justice” should be the biggest supporters of school choice and vouchers. As EAGtv’s Milwaukee story shows, school choice benefits kids by allowing them to attend a school they otherwise couldn’t afford. It’s “spreading the wealth around,” in the form of quality schooling.
Still, President Obama and the vast majority of Democrats seldom miss the chance to vilify and undercut school choice programs. It was Republican John Boehner who reinstituted the D.C. voucher program during recent budget negotiations, not a Big Government social justice progressive.
Why the apparent hypocrisy? Just follow the money. The progressives are in the hip pocket of the teachers’ unions. During the 2007-08 election cycle, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers spent $71.7 million. (It’s a safe bet that money didn’t go toward promoting John McCain.)
For all that “investment,” unions elect a political class that is determined to protect the government’s monopoly over public education.
So instead of giving kids a lifeline out, progressives sentence kids to Drop Out Factories – awful schools that have high crime rates, lousy academics and adult school employees who are more concerned about their health insurance deductible and pension plan than they are about the quality of education being delivered to children.
The teachers’ unions have successfully infiltrated and bought their way into the leadership of an entire political party, to the point where politicians betray their constituents in some of the worst neighborhoods in America, just to get a union endorsement, campaign check, and boots on the ground at election time.
This is the battlefront Walker has chosen as his next major political showdown. It’s as if Walker is taking on the Gambino family one at a time.
Apparently, Scott Walker knows no fear.
For the sake of Milwaukee’s children, let’s hope he prevails.
As part of his budget proposal, Walker wants to lift income restrictions on the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program so that families earning up to 325 percent of the federal poverty line would quality for vouchers, the School Reform News reports.
Walker also wants Milwaukee voucher students to have access to all private schools in Milwaukee County, not just those within the city.
I love this guy.
People talk about Chris Cristy, but Walker affecting more change because he's not facing a hostile legislature like Cristy is.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
They are selfish, lazy parasites who are draining the lifeblood out of the country.
Exactly......
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We need to pull out all the stops and make certain none of the Republican Senators are recalled, and secondarily ensure that all of the fleabaggers are.
I'm not familiar with Kyle Olson; can you point me to his base? Thanks.
When foul mouthed multi-ID posters cry when they are kicked in the ass and call their attacker 'bullies', it is a clear sign the foul mouthed liar is pissed like any spoiled brat, and it is to laugh at.
Public's Right to Know Critical for Truth in Wisconsin by Kyle Olson
The public has a right to know who or what is influencing its government. Open Records and Freedom of Information laws are critical to ensuring a transparent and accountable government. Taxpayers deserve to know how their hard-earned money is being spent. And we ought to know who is massaging legislation or prodding elected officials' actions.
That's why Education Action Group, a Michigan-based national education reform organization, submitted an Open Records request to Dane County (Wisconsin) District Attorney Ismael Ozanne to obtain any and all communications he had surrounding litigation to block Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill.
A district attorney traditionally focuses on crime at the local level. EAG saw it as highly unusual that a DA would seek to block -- and effectively void -- an action by a state legislature. Who or what pushed him to do this?
Indeed; shine the 'light of day' on the process ...
At any rate, it doesn't look like this maneuver (DA blocking action) was/has been successful (for a number of reasons).
"I love the 45 caliber M1911, I respect the 9MM M9 Beretta but I only carry a CZ for my own personal protection". Quote courtesy of Lt Col John Dean Cooper, recognized as the Father of Modern Handgunning
