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March 13, 2007
Teachers Union Greed in Overdrive in Houston
With the help of their Democrat allies, teachers unions have managed to jack the price of education through the stratosphere, without producing any corresponding improvement in quality. Just how greedy are these folks? This gives an idea:
The Houston Independent School District runs the nation's largest merit pay program, which was unanimously approved by the school board but opposed by the Houston Federation of Teachers. As the result of a computer glitch, almost 100 teachers were given oversized bonuses, costing the district $75,000, which unsurprisingly it wants back.
But Gayle Fallon, head of the HFT, has promised to take legal action to prevent the school board from reclaiming the money. As Fallon reasons:
If it's the district's error, then the district should bear the loss.
Actually, it's the taxpayers who would bear the loss, as always. Good thing teachers unions aren't responsible for teaching ethics.
On a tip from Bill V.
Posted by Van Helsing at March 13, 2007 6:28 PM
Comments
Looks like she already spent her bonus at the Star Trek convention.
Posted by: Beef at March 13, 2007 7:32 PM
No fair. Beef stole my caption!
Posted by: V the K at March 14, 2007 2:32 AM
that austin powers' mom?
Posted by: nanc at March 14, 2007 6:38 AM
Yeah - but read today's news from the Houston Comical:
HISD Superintendent Abelardo Saavedra will be $67,250 richer Wednesday when the school district distributes its second round of performance bonuses.
Saavedra's new one-year contract, approved by the school board in January, made him eligible for $80,000 in bonus pay based on students' test scores.
Saavedra, who has run the state's largest school district since 2004, earns a base salary of about $302,000. His bonus — 22 percent of his base pay — is more than almost all his teachers take home each year.
Anyone still wonder where our school taxes REALLY go?
Posted by: Jimbo at March 14, 2007 7:02 AM
funny, when the Marine Corps overpaid me, the government was rather firm in its standing that while 1) yes they screwed up my pay and made an error, 2) I should have noticed the extra pay and reported it to my admin section, which I unfortunately did not do.
Typical liberal. Doesn't want to take responsibility for her actions.
Posted by: jarhead at March 14, 2007 7:44 AM
The unwarranted hostility that liberals have for the hands that feed them are blatantly visible in this episode.
I'm glad that they have a cause worthy of their crusading human rights agenda. Fight the Power, brothers and sisters!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Freedom Now at March 14, 2007 2:57 PM
