Related tangentially - Texas education "labor" dispute

[Kritter471]

Since we're going through all our drama with the labor dispute, I found a fun, pretty parallel story about what's going on in the Texas government about school financing and tax reform.

Don't get caught up in the details, but the whole "he said, he said and it's everyone's fault but ours" is much more enjoyable when it's happening among people I could care less about.

AUSTIN – The closest they ever came was Thursday afternoon, when the governor's office and House members thought they had a deal on school reforms – student testing, teacher pay raises, incentives for improving schools. Five hours later it was "off the table" and the Senate and House had retrenched, deeply divided over the remnants of "Robin Hood."

A companion bill – the tax-swap proposal aimed at lowering property taxes – was never really close at all.

In the last 24 hours, when sleep-deprived tempers were flaring, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and House Speaker Tom Craddick were sending unchanged proposals back and forth, not budging an inch. And in the end, they broke it off Saturday without a deal on the signature issues of this year's legislative session – school finance and property taxes.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/052905dntexmeltdown.f278df2e.html

Edit: Requires registration, but go to http://www.bugmenot.com and it'll get you around that.

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[futurcorerock]

you know, if you omit a few names and the key issues, that's the exact same framework as every lockout article published this year

 

[Mess]

you know, if you omit a few names and the key issues, that's the exact same framework as every lockout article published this year

Which in turn emphasises the point that what the NHL is going through is standard business practices as this article illustrates in labour deputes.

 

[blitzkriegs]

Which in turn emphasises the point that what the NHL is going through is standard business practices as this article illustrates in labour deputes.

Really? Because teachers have a business that generates 2.1 billion dollars? Wow! That's some high paid exam testing.

 

[Mess]

Really? Because teachers have a business that generates 2.1 billion dollars? Wow! That's some high paid exam testing.

The Ontario teachers fund which controls and determines the Leafs budget is a part of a 2.1 bil industry in which they work to determine $$ available to compete ..