Teachers' Union To Sue Private Schools Over Voucher Program...

[paulitician]

No more Public Unions. Most Americans are sick of their jackbooted intimidation tactics. Their time has passed.


Last week, a lawyer for a Louisiana teachers’ union wrote a letter to 95 private schools that have agreed to participate in the Pelican State’s new school voucher program. His message? That vouchers are unconstitutional and if schools accept them, “We will have no alternative other than to institute litigation against [you].”

Nice little private school you got there. It’d be a shame if an angry education monopoly sunk it with groundless lawsuits.

The letter demonstrates the union’s desperation. Teachers’ unions hate vouchers because they require schools to compete on cost and quality, which means they’re unlikely to increase union rolls by hiring extra teachers. And the unions have every reason to be worried about Louisiana’s initiative: More than 10,000 kids have already signed up for the four-month-old program, five times as many as the state superintendent expected to sign up by this point.

Bill Maurer of the Institute for Justice, a libertarian public interest law firm, tells me that this legal intimidation is “unprecedented.” The Institute for Justice and the Alliance for School Choice have retained a lawyer to defend these schools pro bono.

Louisianans’ interest in vouchers grew out of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. In the wake of the storm, which destroyed many of New Orleans’ schools, state legislators instituted a series of education reforms targeting students in the impoverished city. One of the reforms was a New Orleans-specific voucher program; another allowed independently run, largely non-unionized public charter schools to open in the city. Those reforms have proven both popular and successful. Based on this success, Gov. Bobby Jindal made passing a statewide school choice bill one of his top priorities after winning re-election with two-thirds of the vote in 2011.

“This is not about the next election. This is not about the next poll. This is about the next generation,” Jindal repeatedly told state legislators. “If we want to preserve the American Dream for our children, if we want them to do better than we did, then it is important they get a great education”...

Read more: Louisiana teachers' union threatens to sue private schools | The Daily Caller

 

[Listening]

Disgusting.

 

[ClosedCaption]

If anything I've learned to wait until approx page 2 before the real story on what Paulitician posts is revealed.

 

[paulitician]

If anything I've learned to wait until approx page 2 before the real story on what Paulitician posts is revealed.

The link is provided.

 

[thanatos144]

If anything I've learned to wait until approx page 2 before the real story on what Paulitician posts is revealed.

What you want is the lie that will be told later about the true Greedy.... You know the Teachers Unions.

 

[ScreamingEagle]

i guess liberal "choice" is only allowed when it is about killing babies....

 

[ClosedCaption]

If anything I've learned to wait until approx page 2 before the real story on what Paulitician posts is revealed.

The link is provided.

Yeah, I know. I'll wait for another post or link that will tell the whole story...Like your collecting rain water story

 

[paulitician]

i guess liberal "choice" is only allowed when it is about killing babies....

One of the very few instances Socialists/Progressives want Big Brother out of Citizens' personal lives. The rest of the time it's 'HOORAY FOR BIG BROTHER!!' They do obsess over that issue.

 

[WillowTree]

If anything I've learned to wait until approx page 2 before the real story on what Paulitician posts is revealed.

The link is provided.

Yeah, I know. I'll wait for another post or link that will tell the whole story...Like your collecting rain water story

poor deprived crybaby liberals,, always waiting for something that will never come.

 

[paulitician]

If anything I've learned to wait until approx page 2 before the real story on what Paulitician posts is revealed.

The link is provided.

Yeah, I know. I'll wait for another post or link that will tell the whole story...Like your collecting rain water story

Well the information is in the link i provided. But hey, do what you wanna do. It's still sort of a free Country.

 

[WillowTree]

No more Public Unions. Most Americans are sick of their jackbooted intimidation tactics. Their time has passed.


Last week, a lawyer for a Louisiana teachers’ union wrote a letter to 95 private schools that have agreed to participate in the Pelican State’s new school voucher program. His message? That vouchers are unconstitutional and if schools accept them, “We will have no alternative other than to institute litigation against [you].”

Nice little private school you got there. It’d be a shame if an angry education monopoly sunk it with groundless lawsuits.

The letter demonstrates the union’s desperation. Teachers’ unions hate vouchers because they require schools to compete on cost and quality, which means they’re unlikely to increase union rolls by hiring extra teachers. And the unions have every reason to be worried about Louisiana’s initiative: More than 10,000 kids have already signed up for the four-month-old program, five times as many as the state superintendent expected to sign up by this point.

Bill Maurer of the Institute for Justice, a libertarian public interest law firm, tells me that this legal intimidation is “unprecedented.” The Institute for Justice and the Alliance for School Choice have retained a lawyer to defend these schools pro bono.

Louisianans’ interest in vouchers grew out of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. In the wake of the storm, which destroyed many of New Orleans’ schools, state legislators instituted a series of education reforms targeting students in the impoverished city. One of the reforms was a New Orleans-specific voucher program; another allowed independently run, largely non-unionized public charter schools to open in the city. Those reforms have proven both popular and successful. Based on this success, Gov. Bobby Jindal made passing a statewide school choice bill one of his top priorities after winning re-election with two-thirds of the vote in 2011.

“This is not about the next election. This is not about the next poll. This is about the next generation,” Jindal repeatedly told state legislators. “If we want to preserve the American Dream for our children, if we want them to do better than we did, then it is important they get a great education”...

Read more: Louisiana teachers' union threatens to sue private schools | The Daily Caller

I guess we can assume Louisiana will go Republican.

 

[thanatos144]

No more Public Unions. Most Americans are sick of their jackbooted intimidation tactics. Their time has passed.


Last week, a lawyer for a Louisiana teachers’ union wrote a letter to 95 private schools that have agreed to participate in the Pelican State’s new school voucher program. His message? That vouchers are unconstitutional and if schools accept them, “We will have no alternative other than to institute litigation against [you].”

Nice little private school you got there. It’d be a shame if an angry education monopoly sunk it with groundless lawsuits.

The letter demonstrates the union’s desperation. Teachers’ unions hate vouchers because they require schools to compete on cost and quality, which means they’re unlikely to increase union rolls by hiring extra teachers. And the unions have every reason to be worried about Louisiana’s initiative: More than 10,000 kids have already signed up for the four-month-old program, five times as many as the state superintendent expected to sign up by this point.

Bill Maurer of the Institute for Justice, a libertarian public interest law firm, tells me that this legal intimidation is “unprecedented.” The Institute for Justice and the Alliance for School Choice have retained a lawyer to defend these schools pro bono.

Louisianans’ interest in vouchers grew out of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. In the wake of the storm, which destroyed many of New Orleans’ schools, state legislators instituted a series of education reforms targeting students in the impoverished city. One of the reforms was a New Orleans-specific voucher program; another allowed independently run, largely non-unionized public charter schools to open in the city. Those reforms have proven both popular and successful. Based on this success, Gov. Bobby Jindal made passing a statewide school choice bill one of his top priorities after winning re-election with two-thirds of the vote in 2011.

“This is not about the next election. This is not about the next poll. This is about the next generation,” Jindal repeatedly told state legislators. “If we want to preserve the American Dream for our children, if we want them to do better than we did, then it is important they get a great education”...

Read more: Louisiana teachers' union threatens to sue private schools | The Daily Caller

I guess we can assume Louisiana will go Republican.

didnt they do that after Katrina and how it showed how ineffective leaders democrats were?

 

[Jackson]

The problem with the voucher system basically is that it takes the more successful students out of the public schools, leaving the more unsuccessful disadvantaged students. And let's get real and describe what the disadvantaged youth have against them. They are generally coming from homes were education is not the highest of priorities in the family. The parents do not support the teachers or the school as much as the parents that opt out of the public schools system.

There in lies the problem. If the school mandates homework each night for each subject, the parents of the public school system is likely to balk or not see that their children are getting it done. Without this parental support, it is almost impossible to keep the quality of the schools up to par with the charter and private schools.

Discipline is better at the charter and private schools. Again, the parents are more supportive and demand good discipline in the charter and private schools. Parents are not supporting the discipline policies if followed through in the public schools and more and more disciplinary actions have to take place, taking up instructional time.

Public school teachers are not evaluated as often as in the charter and private schools due to tenure and the quality of teaching is affected. Once a teacher has reached tenure, it is easy to slide especially when you don't have parental support, discipline in the school is an issue and administration is not supporting you.

But it can change and it takes a good PR program to do just that. It's getting parents back on board and letting them know what is possible for their children if the school and the community work together. Every other year the teachers should be evaluated for effectiveness and unions who protect the ineffective teachers have to police their own.

If unions want to be considered part of the solution instead of the problem, they have to start workshops on the effective teacher, demanding excellence and expecting students and teachers both to perform. In turn, the parents have to expect they will be called on to support the "team."

 

[DontBeStupid]

If anything I've learned to wait until approx page 2 before the real story on what Paulitician posts is revealed.

The link is provided.

Yeah, I know. I'll wait for another post or link that will tell the whole story...Like your collecting rain water story

You were wise to wait since Pauli is never honest about the truth of a story. I don't think he means it on purpose. I think he just doesn't care to read or research.

In this case, the LA teachers have a pending court case challenging the constitutionality of the voucher program in LA. If the ruling goes in their favour, the voucher program could go away almost immediately, and any private school that had accepted funds would have unconstitutionally received public tax payer money. Money that would need to be returned immediately.

The LA teachers asked for an injunction, but one was denied and they are currently challenging that. In the mean time, they sent those letters to private schools, because, if the schools accept tax payer money that is then ruled unconstitutional, the union would have no choice but to sue to get taxpayer money back. It'd just be a huge mess for everyone.

Here's the actual letter sent by the union.

http://www.louisianaschools.net/lde/uploads/20192.pdf

 

[thanatos144]

The link is provided.

Yeah, I know. I'll wait for another post or link that will tell the whole story...Like your collecting rain water story

You were wise to wait since Pauli is never honest about the truth of a story. I don't think he means it on purpose. I think he just doesn't care to read or research.

In this case, the LA teachers have a pending court case challenging the constitutionality of the voucher program in LA. If the ruling goes in their favour, the voucher program could go away almost immediately, and any private school that had accepted funds would have unconstitutionally received public tax payer money. Money that would need to be returned immediately.

The LA teachers asked for an injunction, but one was denied and they are currently challenging that. In the mean time, they sent those letters to private schools, because, if the schools accept tax payer money that is then ruled unconstitutional, the union would have no choice but to sue to get taxpayer money back. It'd just be a huge mess for everyone.

Here's the actual letter sent by the union.

http://www.louisianaschools.net/lde/uploads/20192.pdf

Idiot you just proved the op correct.

 

[DontBeStupid]

Yeah, I know. I'll wait for another post or link that will tell the whole story...Like your collecting rain water story

You were wise to wait since Pauli is never honest about the truth of a story. I don't think he means it on purpose. I think he just doesn't care to read or research.

In this case, the LA teachers have a pending court case challenging the constitutionality of the voucher program in LA. If the ruling goes in their favour, the voucher program could go away almost immediately, and any private school that had accepted funds would have unconstitutionally received public tax payer money. Money that would need to be returned immediately.

The LA teachers asked for an injunction, but one was denied and they are currently challenging that. In the mean time, they sent those letters to private schools, because, if the schools accept tax payer money that is then ruled unconstitutional, the union would have no choice but to sue to get taxpayer money back. It'd just be a huge mess for everyone.

Here's the actual letter sent by the union.

http://www.louisianaschools.net/lde/uploads/20192.pdf

Idiot you just proved the op correct.

I never said he wasn't correct. Letters went to private schools threatening legal action. But, that wasn't the whole story, and now you know the whole story.

 

[copsnrobbers]

They'll pass an idiot to save there payroll funding... a cut? never.

Loyalty to the destruction of a nation for a pay check and free pension that they will not end up with if the agenda wins out.... useful idiots.

 

[paulitician]

You were wise to wait since Pauli is never honest about the truth of a story. I don't think he means it on purpose. I think he just doesn't care to read or research.

In this case, the LA teachers have a pending court case challenging the constitutionality of the voucher program in LA. If the ruling goes in their favour, the voucher program could go away almost immediately, and any private school that had accepted funds would have unconstitutionally received public tax payer money. Money that would need to be returned immediately.

The LA teachers asked for an injunction, but one was denied and they are currently challenging that. In the mean time, they sent those letters to private schools, because, if the schools accept tax payer money that is then ruled unconstitutional, the union would have no choice but to sue to get taxpayer money back. It'd just be a huge mess for everyone.

Here's the actual letter sent by the union.

http://www.louisianaschools.net/lde/uploads/20192.pdf

Idiot you just proved the op correct.

I never said he wasn't correct. Letters went to private schools threatening legal action. But, that wasn't the whole story, and now you know the whole story.

Why are they threatening fellow Citizens at all? It's not like they've anything positive for Public Education in the last 30yrs or so. In fact, they've become its biggest problem. So to Hell with em.

 

[DontBeStupid]

Idiot you just proved the op correct.

I never said he wasn't correct. Letters went to private schools threatening legal action. But, that wasn't the whole story, and now you know the whole story.

Why are they threatening fellow Citizens at all? It's not like they've anything positive for Public Education in the last 30yrs or so. In fact, they've become its biggest problem. So to Hell with em.

See what I mean?

I posted a letter which clearly explains the position of the Teachers, and Pauli comes on and asks about the position of the Teachers.

He just doesn't care to read or research.

 

[paulitician]

I never said he wasn't correct. Letters went to private schools threatening legal action. But, that wasn't the whole story, and now you know the whole story.

Why are they threatening fellow Citizens at all? It's not like they've anything positive for Public Education in the last 30yrs or so. In fact, they've become its biggest problem. So to Hell with em.

See what I mean?

I posted a letter which clearly explains the position of the Teachers, and Pauli comes on and asks about the position of the Teachers.

He just doesn't care to read or research.

They shouldn't be threatening their fellow Citizens. Education can be successful by employing various different means. It's not just a one-way street. These Public Unions should be ashamed of themselves. It's not 'their way or the highway' anymore. The times they are a changin.