Posted on 06/19/2003 12:13:31 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:03:59 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Today, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold a hearing into the teachers union scandals that have erupted over the last several months.
Mr. Baxter's double salary wasn't picked up on because the WTU hasn't filed its required biennial internal audit of its affiliate, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), since 1995. The AFT actively refused such a commonsense responsibility. After a D.C. teacher filed a lawsuit to impose a court monitor over AFT's oversight of the WTU's finances, AFT President Sandra Feldman even sent union attorneys to court to insist that the AFT had no legal obligation to review WTU audits.
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