Why I’m Fighting in Wisconsin
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 11th, 2011 5:31 am by HL
Why I’m Fighting in Wisconsin
Gov. Scott Walker, Wall Street Journal
In 2010, Megan Sampson was named an Outstanding First Year Teacher in Wisconsin. A week later, she got a layoff notice from the Milwaukee Public Schools. Why would one of the best new teachers in the state be one of the first let go? Because her collective-bargaining contract requires staffing decisions to be made based on seniority.Ms. Sampson got a layoff notice because the union leadership would not accept reasonable changes to their contract.
Get Your Kid Into College w/o Going Insane
Ferguson & Gillespie, Reason
Andrew Ferguson is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard and the author of, most recently, Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College.Drawing rave reviews from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, Crazy U is a very funny yet very serious look at the higher-education industry, especially the status anxiety college invokes in parents. Ferguson roams the countryside with his diffident son, touring various campuses and meeting characters such as a sharp-tongued counselor who charges $40,000 to shepherd high schoolers through an…
