We’re No. 1 – In Public Employee Pay
Legal and illegal theft goes on every day when the public delegates the running of government to the mal-motivated and/or incompetent. Here are just two examples. The first is from the NCPA, the next…
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There is one state employee in the state pension system for every 6 IL households.
The Family Taxpayers Foundation recently published a chart of the various numbers associated with the 5 state pension systems called “Illinois State Pension Systems Numbers Matrix” and it can be found at the link…
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Constitutional Public Pension Guarantees: Unfair, Unaffordable, and Bad Policy
What the idiots in our government — including the court system — don’t have the intellectual capacity to grasp is that no state constitution can guarantee the impossible. At the end of the day,…
Read MoreZ Gram 07: Highlights of Barrington 220 Teachers Contract as of Dec 31, 2012 includes contractual $100+ hourly rates.
Contractual Fringe benefits: Sabbatical leave up to one full school year for such activities as study, travel, writing or other professional activities. This is after working all of 6 years without having any…
Read MoreIMRF – the stealth pension tax no one talks about.
The Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund is the pension fund that provides pensions for virtually all city, township, non-certified school employees and county workers in IL outside of Cook County. With 394,000 members it has…
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American Education: a Lesson in Incoherence
Next up, Sierra Rayne: In a recent American Thinker article, Thomas Lifson made the astute observation that the American higher education system has “got[ten] fat, lazy, inward-focused, and expensive during its decades of monopoly…
Read MoreAnthony Esolen on “Bullying Prevention” in Public Schools
The Illinois Family Institute’s Laurie Higgins writes about Anthony Esolen’s article on “Bullying Prevention” in Public Schools: My favorite writer, Anthony Esolen, Professor of English at Providence College in Rhode Island, has written yet…
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America’s Educational Madness
And speaking of madness, Robert Weissberg at American Thinker discusses the insanity of mis-directed education spending in the U.S.: Imagine you were the CEO of something called “American K-12 Public Schools” and it was…
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Pensions Are Cannibalizing the Nation’s Young People
Speaking of legalized theft, Joy Pullman at Townhall outlines more of it here. And as I’ve noted before — don’t think for a minute that those public employees — teachers included— give a damn…
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A Lesson from the Wreckage in Detroit: Retiree Health Care Is Ripe for Reform
Uh, no kidding. It’s called legalized theft. From The American: The focus on retiree pensions has eclipsed an equally important target for reform in Detroit and other cash-strapped American cities: retiree health care benefits….
Read MoreOne Teacher’s Arrogant Admissions
From Laurie Higgins: Following my recent piece about “progressive” teachers who exploit their publicly subsidized positions in government schools to advance their personal moral and political beliefs about the nature and morality of homosexuality…
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Back to School: Teachers Who Exploit Their Position
From Laurie Higgins at the Illinois Family Institute: As your children start off a new school year, take time to get to know what’s going on in your local public schools. Although taxpayers must…
Read MoreThe Press and Dr. Faustus: Too late, American journalists realize their mistake
From Victor Davis Hanson: In the old Dr. Faustus story, a young scholar bargains away his soul to the devil for promises of obtaining almost anything he wants.The American media has done much the…
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Unions Complaining about Digging Their Own Grave
From Gary Jason at American Thinker: Two reports — ironically, both from the same source (the WSJ) on the same day — point to continuing problems for the union movement. The first is the…
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Book shows radical teachers how to mix traditional math with ‘social justice’ political lessons
I don’t think it’s too harsh to say these people are sick. From the Education Action Group: It’s said that misery loves company. Rethinking MathmaticsPerhaps that’s one reason a group of gloomy, radical teachers…
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