No more summer vacation?

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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

What exactly can this be based on? Concessions to teachers unions? What the Democrats dont seem to care about is the private schools that consistently massively outperform public schools by killing time after time any legislative help for an expansion of these schools. Of course those schools arent mandated to hire union teachers and as such the teachers unuions lobby hard AGAINST funding or tax breaks for these schools. The practices of teachers unions have helped create the debacle that public schools have become in many areas. And we know whose pockets they are in.

chuck ny state teachers pension fund lost over 8 billion last year in the mkt meltdown , well who makes that up ???? the taxpayer does because the pension fund is guaranteed by ny state law .... well what in the world were they doing with 70% of the $ in the stock mkt , shouldn't it be in cash , i am not against the penisons the teachers get , but when the taxpayer has to subsidize their losses it ain't right.... a lot of people who make what teacher make in ny 50 - 100k are not getting their 401k 's made whole