The magnitude of these layoffs is because the district kowtowed to the teachers union and didn't implement changes that almost everyone else did to reduce benefits costs. Now class sizes will be increased, all "for the children," no doubt.

Truth be told, the number of actual teacher layoffs were smaller under Governor Walker than they were under Doyle. The teachers union own data proves it, but what do you know, they took the information off their website! Too bad those evil Republicans found it elsewhere on the teachers union's own site, proving they are both inept and dishonest.

All the deception and self-imposed teacher cuts are for the kids though!

More proof that being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry.

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/g...

I guess my question is now what do we do to keep Wisconsin from losing any more Jobs? I am just frustrated as anyone else we take one step forward and three steps backwards. As a result we never make any progress on anything. As a result we play the blame and finger pointing game and our republicans and democrats along with our other leaders can never agree on a solution. I just wish we can come up with a solution that makes sense so we can get Wisconsin working again.

Barrett & Falk Won't Say How They Would Have Balanced Wisconsin's Budget

"I'm not answering. None of us will answer that question."

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/barr...

Tjhanks Gov. Walker...for nothing !

yada

Do you RECALL how much stimulus money Doyle got to continue funding teachers, instead of finding solutions?

Add that to the fund he raided, and Walker had to pay back.

justmy414

Maybe they should consider reopening part of their contract?

This is progress according to WaLkEr - take around 800 million dollars from education. Hope the FBI John Doe probe gets him before the RECALL does!
walkerinvestigation.com

Raising the property tax is what the teachers union in Kenosha has for an answer. No sacrafice, just give us more is their mantra.

dtb,

Yup, big mistake by me, I typed the wrong district.

I was alluding to the time period where contracts could have been renegotiated before the law took effect. Even afterwards, the law only set minimum contributions, the district could still require higher contributions without negotiating.

Perhaps my statements were poorly contrived in my earlier post. The ability to use context clues may have been an over sight on my part.

Wislady is a rightwing stepford girl and she condones all the GOP attacks and believes Faux News, I am amazed at so many that think the Union busting makes a difference in the budget The dictator made the decision to destroy Jobs in the public sector to IMO line the pockets of the private sector. The Koch hound is soon to be gone 28 days and counting. More Job loss thanks to Scooter and his destruction.

This is not what we needed to here more job loss. When is this going to end. 250 jobs lost that will be unemployed and the union can't stop it from happening and democrat and republicans will play the blame game and point fingers at each other and blame the union. In the meantime students and teachers will pay for it like in Kenosha. Will we ever get out of this mess with the politician's we have now?

Spinit, your lack of understanding is amazing.
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"Stripping the collective bargaining privileges allows sane districts to negotiate reasonable contributions required of their employees for health care and retirement"
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Districts don't negotiate the contributions - the percentages were set by the law and were a seperate issue from CB rights.
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Also the article is about Kenosha, not Racine.

Wislady- did you read the article you posted?? They are not keeping a associate principal at $100,000 and getting an anticipated 80 new students to the school system. More students == more funding=more need for teachers. Kenosha is just the start of the bad news for Wisconsin students.

Mistergee, What could your 11 year old possibly be noticing?

Layoffs are not supposed to be the trade off for the budget cuts. That was the whole point of act 10. Stripping the collective bargaining privileges allows sane districts to negotiate reasonable contributions required of their employees for health care and retirement.

Racine refused to take advantage of the opportunity to avoid the layoffs. There is nothing else to blame but their own stupidity.

mistergee1
I bet the students in Neenah can tell the difference also. Did you even read the article?

What is your fix to the problem mistergee???

Neenah must be a pet project. However this district (Neenah) is not nearly as big as Kenosha wouldn't you agree wislady? Even if you don't it doesn't matter. I have a child in school and I can tell you SHE can tell the difference and she is 11.
And If you read wellenough you know more are comming to this town. Budget cuts and layoffs. This is not a good trade off.

Too bad, I think Neenah is doing better....thanks to Act 10!

Neenah schools to add staff
Board member: New laws will aid in balancing budget

NEENAH — Reversing a seven-year trend of reducing staff, Neenah administrators recommended Tuesday that the school district hire a handful of additional teachers next year.

The 2012-13 staffing plan calls for the full-time equivalent of 426.6 teachers, or 4.8 more than this year.

School board member John Lehman said laws enacted last year, when Gov. Scott Walker and the Legislature took away most collective bargaining powers from most public unions, change the outlook for balancing the school budget.

http://www.postcrescent.com/article/2012...