I just heard on Wisconsin Public Radio (sorry, no link available yet) that Scott Walker’s campaign is seeking even more time to review signatures, which was already extended to 30 days from the original ten alloted.
Walker complains that even though he has 3,000 volunteers, they have only been able to review about one-quarter of the petitions submitted.
Simple explanation?
Walker supporters can’t read.
Imagine if this was happening after years of Walker policies gutting education. One-eighth? One-tenth perhaps?
I’m glad it won’t get that far. Governor Anyone-But-Scott, here we come.
If he has “only” 3,000 volunteers to look at petitions, and they have 30 days to do the looking, and they only work an average of eight hours a day, that’s 720,000 total work hours available to the Walker team for looking at about one million signatures. Does it really take three-quarters of an hour to look at each and every signature on these petitions? Boy, talk about your featherbedding! Get to work! We’re not paying you to lollygag around, Scotty!
How has education been gutted? Please provide specific schools affected.
Cutting pay, diverting resources into vouchers, worse UW (specific school: All) cuts than before — note the words “imagine several years.” Understand what I’m getting at now?
I get it. But here’s the thing: More money has done nothing to improve the outcomes in education. Research per pupil costs 5 and 10 years ago vs. today. What did we get for all that extra money? Zilch. Did we get better graduation rates? Did we get better test scores? Is the minority achievement gap less?
http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/02/the-myth-of-reduced-budgets-for-wisconsin-schools/
As for your link, MPS’s problems run far deeper than funding, I’ll give you that, though I don’t think my limited concession there is what you’re looking for. As far as higher education, any cuts get passed right along to the student, making it less affordable to go to college. Getting back to teacher pay, thanks to the governor and Act 10, they’re taking home a significantly less amount of money than before. And before wasn’t excessive. That’s certainly de-motivating. I’ve got more but this post was already kind of old and interest is fading.