Look at the picture if you see the teachers in red with Wisconsin embazoned on it they are a UW Madison graduate. The issue is that the teachers are too stupid to realize that they will get to keep the 1100.00 dollars that pay for union dues. 12.6% for health and 5.8% for their pensions. Gee the 1100.00 savings from the union dues will pay for the health insurance plan and their pension amount with some change so they can make a monthly payment on a Ford Focus or Ford Fusion Hybrid.
“see the teachers in red with Wisconsin embazoned on it they are a UW Madison graduate.” UW Madison? The MacIver Institute, Wisconsin’s new think-tank, released a report today by yours truly comparing the NAEP scores of Wisconsin and Florida. Let’s just say that UW-Madison would have probably fared better against the national champion Florida Gators in football. Florida spends considerably less per student than Wisconsin and has a student profile considerably more challenging. Despite that fact, Florida surpassed Wisconsin overall on 4th grade reading (although within the margin of error) on 4th Grade Reading scores in 2007.
Most impressively, this gain was driven by much larger gains among traditionally underperforming student groups. The figure above shows the progress among Free and Reduced lunch kids in Florida and Wisconsin. In 1998, Florida’s low-income students were an average of 13 points behind their peers in Wisconsin. In 2007 however they had raced 8 points ahead.
Among African American students, Florida and Wisconsin once shared space near the bottom in reading achievement. Wisconsin is still there. Florida’s African Americans students now outscore their peers in Wisconsin by 17 points.
http://jaypgreene.com/2009/04/29/forward-our-motto/