Is Union Protecting BAD Teachers?

Wisconsin spends more per pupil in its public schools than any other state in the Midwest.  Yet two-thirds of the eighth graders in Wisconsin public schools cannot read proficiently according to the U.S. Department of Education.

Despite the $10,791 that taxpayers are paying to educate student in Wisconsin public schools, two-thirds of eighth graders in those schools showed at best only a “partial mastery of prerequisite knowledge and skills that are fundamental for proficient work” at that grade level.

At the eight-grade level, “black students scored poorer in reading than students for whom English is not their native-born language.” 

In Wisconsin, according to a March 2010 article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “reading scores for Wisconsin's African-American fourth-graders trail those of their racial peers in every other state and the District of Columbia,” while “fourth-graders as a whole in Wisconsin are losing ground in reading while other states make gains.” 

In fiscal 2008, the federal government provided $669.6 million in subsidies to the public schools in Wisconsin.

These are the teachers the unions are protecting from losing their job.   These teachers’ average salary plus compensation reaches into six figures, and they have launched an insurrection because they were asked to shoulder a small percentage of the cost for providing their now-infamous “zero contribution” pension plans.

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