MESSA is the middleman between Blue Cross insurance and the school employees. It is owned by the MEA, which is the teacher's union. MESSA is the sacred cow of the union management, and is so corrupt it makes Ed McNamara's Wayne County machine look almost clean.
What needs to happen is for all of us to elect competent school board members May 3 who understand fiscal management. Then we need to make sure they sign off with fiscally conservative contracts so our school districts live within their means. This is not happening and does not happen when 90% of the populace are lazy bums when it comes to voting in school elections. In my county, Livingston, some of our schools are in debt, and are now pushing for a tax increase. A countywide millage is on this ballot. All except one school board member voted to support the millage and to have the taxpayers bail out the schools for three years.....since MESSA wasn't touched.
It's time for our schools to live within their means.
OMG, and I thought California's state system was ripped bad with fraud and gross "mismanagement"...well the ownership by the Teacher Union of MESSA says it all. Crime, corruption = the libs!!!
I briefly worked at MESSA in a temp gig in East Lansing 'waaaaay back in 1985.
It was not a lot of fun, as I recall.
I'll be back..
This may be going in here, i'll have to read the whole thing.
http://www.rusthompson.com
This reads more like one big MESS-a to me.
My FReepin' hubby works for Maximus, which is basically an insurance broker for a number of different states. Since they have taken on the Medicare/Medicaid contract in Michigan, the state has saved millions annually--and Maximus is only handling enrollment for benefits. Time for the districts to start shopping around (not that they ever will).
Practical question: Since I am home all day, every day, and I haven't got a lot on my plate today, who do you think I should call and needle about this first? The superintendant of the school district? Someone from the school board?
It's the same in my school district. There are more administrators than there are teachers. The schools are fueled by property taxes, with assessments rising at about three times the rate of inflation over the past ten years or so. In spite of this cash inflow, the district cries that it's broke, and tried to pass a $60 Million bond issue last year. Even the lib voters shot that down. Makes you wonder where all the money's going.