Archive for May 2015

Mike Antonucci scores kudos for insight when he defines education policy as a labor issue. Because Matthew Ladner deftly eviscerated President Obama after his remarks at the Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit on Overcoming Poverty at Georgetown University. I’ll turn the stage over to Ladner, and simply highlight a Heritage Foundation chart he used. He likes it because it…

The Illinois Supreme Court has blown government employee pension reform efforts out of the water, claiming it violates the state constitution.  Taxpayers will continue to be on the hook  for union bosses’ extravagant demands for more, more, more, that has brought the state to the point of a $111 billion underfunding of the pension system.  The…

Official time allows union officials to collect teacher salaries but not to teach.  Teacher union officials are increasing their power through this scheme, which has been enshrined in monopoly bargaining contracts, and paid for by the taxpayer.  Scott Reeder writes about Illinois teacher union officials’ official time on Illinois News Network. Imagine paying a teacher $141,105 not…