The Democrat teachers unions are losing their grip on the taxpayers’ money. They are howling all the way to the dustbin of history.
From another liberal Wisconsin news source:
March 2015: “Why don’t we just turn all these failing schools in Milwaukee over to people who will run them better?
Because experience elsewhere and realities in Milwaukee suggest it is close to impossible that big steps like that would turn out well.
That doesn’t mean there won’t be important action coming out of the state Legislature soon.
But it does mean that, if it comes, it will be in smaller increments. What is very likely to be put before legislators will be scaled back from ideas floated earlier to turn a bunch of low-performing schools in the Milwaukee Public Schools system over to independent charter operators and create something like the New Orleans Recovery School District.
Two to five schools a year for the next several years — that’s what state Rep. Dale Kooyenga (R-Brookfield) and state Sen. Alberta Darling (R-River Hills) are talking about now.
In late January, the influential legislators put out a policy paper called “New Opportunities for Milwaukee” that included the idea of creating a board, separate from the Milwaukee School Board, to “oversee a turnaround school initiative for all schools that fail to meet expectations in the targeted zone.”
While the proposal didn’t specify a targeted zone, there were more than 40 Milwaukee public schools in the state’s lowest performance category (”fails to meet expectations”) in the most recent round of school report cards.
Kooyenga said in an interview last week that he and Darling wanted to get feedback before they created a formal proposal. And they’ve gotten plenty.
That includes adamant opposition from the Milwaukee School Board and the Milwaukee teachers union. For example, the board brought to Milwaukee three people last week who are critics of what has happened in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. And the union has been making opposition to charter schools outside of MPS one of its urgent focal points.....”