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First some background:

Around this nation, teacher unions are waging a war in the courts, state by state. Most state constitutions have some clause in them stating that the people have the right to a ‘suitable education’.

So, the teacher unions take our tax dollars, and use them to pay lawyers and lobbyists to sue the state...because the funding level for education is not ‘suitable’. Eventually they find a judge who orders a minimum level of state funding to be ‘suitable’....eliminating the legislature from the budgeting process and negating the will of the people who vote for the legislature. This happened around 15 years ago in Kansas - and we have a court ordered level of funding.

Brownback ignored it in his budget proposal. We don’t have the money.

So the teacher unions sued again, and got a judge to order him to fund it to the ‘suitable’ level.

Brownback said fine, but then he eliminated teacher tenure in the state :)

And in general he has annoyed all styles of government unions, including teachers. In particular, he has maneuvered to eliminate automatic payroll deduction of union dues. And why not - the government should pay its employees, and let them spend the money as they please. They shouldn’t be a collections arm of the union.

He’s done a lot of good things.