Posted on 09/02/2014 8:38:17 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
Apparently, some teacher’s union officials have taken too much public school math. michigan outline
“On a Saturday in May, members of the Michigan Education Association held a walk in Midland bringing attention to public school funding,” the Michigan-based Mackinac Center reports in the organization’s July/August report. “They claim education funding is down nearly $19 million in the greater Midland area in the last four years.”
“MEA president Steve Cook has claimed that Michigan’s public school budget has been cut by $1 billion. The problem is that these claims are not true.”
“State spending on public education actually increased $800 million in the last four years, despite the fact enrollmentis down by 2.4 percent.”
“As Michigan Capitol Confidential reported, the West Bloomfield School District receives about $515 more per pupil today than it did in 2010. Despite this, its superintendent claims that it is getting less money.”
Perhaps they’ve read too many textbooks with titles such as Mathematics for Equity. Or maybe they were taught in an experimental group that tested out the Common Core curriculum beloved by both the Obama Administration and several former Republican governors.
The odds are pretty long that they were homeschooled.
Hmmm, ‘twould appear that math is not their friend.
They must be liberal teachers.
And betcha they’re pushing “see and say” instead of phonics.
Double fail.
Why would this not be a surprise?
LIBs lie. Liars lie.
Come on. We all know the rules here. Any time any Republican or other conservative lawmaker —whether they are in leadership or not — talks about providing less money than what is on the teacher’s union wishlist, it is a cut. In fact, the rule is that you can take the difference and double or triple it for good measure, and round up to the nearest billion.
Four out of every three union thugs struggle with math!
August opt out just ended and I don’t know what the numbers look like but I have a feeling that the MEA lost thousands of members.
They prolly used Common Core to figure out the math.
Latices forever!
Good. Unions have distorted education.
They always lie and plead poverty even if we are spending way too much on government schools
and they are making at least two times what the rest of us are
Whenever you hear the word CUT associated with the public schools you know someone is lying.
or most government agencies, come to think 0f it
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