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I probably should have warned you to sit down before reading the above headline, because its such a shocker!\u00a0 The above article shines a light on an interesting contradiction: charter schools must “re-up” every so often, but a public sector union does not have to.\u00a0 This results in, for example, none of NYC teachers ever having voted to join their union, yet all must pay dues that support far more than collective bargaining efforts (read “political contributions”).\u00a0 James Otis must be rolling over in his grave.\u00a0 Anyone working with charters understands the lengths unions are going to thwart the growth of charter schools.\u00a0 The term “weaponizing regulation” is heard more and more.\u00a0 In California, Senator Tony Mendoza has introduced legislation (SB 808) that would result in districts having the last word on charter petitions AND allow districts to deny a charter if the charter would financially harm the district, a standard that would be met very easily.\u00a0 But the hypocrisy is that Senator Mendoza’s union supporters have caused significantly more financial harm to school districts than charters ever could.\u00a0 The generous and unfunded pension obligations have the potential to cripple school districts.\u00a0 Going back just a few years,\u00a0 in LAUSD alone about $2.6K of the $9.7K per student allotment went towards employee benefits including OPEB.\u00a0 Consider that unions claim the ability to represent all members to prevent “free riders” from benefiting from their collective bargaining efforts but engage in far more activities than just that.\u00a0 Then also consider that public sector unions promulgate an egregious conflict of interest that would result with someone’s head on a plate should it occur anywhere else.\u00a0 Those political contributions go to candidates with whom the unions then negotiate collective bargaining agreements, including benefits for union members.\u00a0 If Senator Mendoza was serious about preventing harm to school districts, he would do something about that.\u00a0 But he’s not serious, just duplicitous, and the damage his bill would do would harm the life trajectory of hundreds of thousands of disenfranchised students (and their families) who are benefiting from attending a quality charter school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/why-should-unions-have-eternal-life-1520982788?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1 I probably should have warned you to sit down before reading the above headline, because its such a shocker!\u00a0 The above article shines a light on an interesting contradiction: charter schools must “re-up” every so often, but a public sector union does not have to.\u00a0 This results in, for example, none of NYC teachers… read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buckfinancial.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buckfinancial.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buckfinancial.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buckfinancial.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buckfinancial.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.buckfinancial.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/www.buckfinancial.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buckfinancial.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buckfinancial.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buckfinancial.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}