[Speed Gibson,
Thursday December 13, 2007 at 2:39pm]
Wrong Question
The bill has come due at Anoka-Hennepin schools, which passed two of its four referendums last month, which will raise millions of dollars in additional property taxes. Education Minnesota wants it all. Now.
Sandra Skaar, president of the union local, referring to the efforts of the "vote yes" committee asks:
A better question would be:
Sandra Skaar, president of the union local, referring to the efforts of the "vote yes" committee asks:
"How do we explain that all of their work for the levy yields a substandard settlement for teachers?"In case you unaware, these committees are largely drawn from the ranks of the district's employees, mostly unionized teachers.
A better question would be:
How do we explain to those who voted yes that virtually all of that money will go to the teachers?
It's another one of those "little details" that Vote Yes groups don't want you to know, and one of the tricks they use is to tell you that the District's "costs are going up" without telling you that THEY are the ones increasing the costs. When our last levy passed, the teachers got a 15% raise, when they were already among the best paid in the area. And that was during "tough times" when the rest of us were grateful to be keeping our jobs, never mind a raise. Where is the competition?