board of education
board of education
Do not think about, write about or deal with human behavior without determining the effects of incentives.
Two teachers in Manitoba who did an improvised dance simulating sexually activities in front of students at a “rally” and became stars on Youtube, were fired, supporting my contention that something public and outrageous needs to be done to be fired from teaching. Poor teaching and ineffectiveness won’t even come close to getting one terminated, public outrageousness is required.
And now, for California and what may be the bottom of the trough or just the lowest point so far. I’m hoping for trough but betting on continuing decline. California, Ontario and New York have all reached record deficits from governments pandering to government worker unions, spending on “green” and “social” programs using the wonderful power that coercion brings. Add that to no responsibility producing perverse incentives and you have the “failed state syndrome”.
“We wanted the government to do everything for us, but we didn’t want it to make us poor.”
The Beholden State
How public-sector unions broke California
“The unions’ political triumphs have molded a California in which government workers thrive at the expense of a struggling private sector. The state’s public school teachers are the highest-paid in the nation. Its prison guards can easily earn six-figure salaries. State workers routinely retire at 55 with pensions higher than their base pay for most of their working life. Meanwhile, what was once the most prosperous state now suffers from an unemployment rate far steeper than the nation’s and a flood of firms and jobs escaping high taxes and stifling regulations. This toxic combination—high public-sector employee costs and sagging economic fortunes—has produced recurring budget crises in Sacramento and in virtually every municipality in the state.”
Who could have seen this coming? We’ll just ride the private sector to death and then, because we’re not that bright, wonder why we’re afoot.
“How public employees became members of the elite class in a declining California offers a cautionary tale to the rest of the country, where the same process is happening in slower motion. The story starts half a century ago, when California public workers won bargaining rights and quickly learned how to elect their own bosses—that is, sympathetic politicians who would grant them outsize pay and benefits in exchange for their support. Over time, the unions have turned the state’s politics completely in their favor. The result: unaffordable benefits for civil servants; fiscal chaos in Sacramento and in cities and towns across the state; and angry taxpayers finally confronting the unionized masters of California’s unsustainable government.”
“Consider the California Teachers Association. Much of the CTA’s clout derives from the fact that, like all government unions, it can help elect the very politicians who negotiate and approve its members’ salaries and benefits. Soon after Proposition 13 became law, the union launched a coordinated statewide effort to support friendly candidates in school-board races, in which turnout is frequently low and special interests can have a disproportionate influence. In often bitter campaigns, union-backed candidates began sweeping out independent board members. By 1987, even conservative-leaning Orange County saw 83 percent of board seats up for grabs going to union-backed candidates. The resulting change in school-board composition made the boards close allies of the CTA.”
Elect your own bosses. What a swell idea. Maybe they’ll give us a raise.
“Four years later, the CTA reached new heights of thuggishness after a business-backed group began a petition to place a school-choice initiative on the state ballot. In a union-backed effort, teachers shadowed signature gatherers in shopping malls and aggressively dissuaded people from signing up. The tactic led to more than 40 confrontations and protests of harassment by signature gatherers. “They get in between the signer and the petition,” the head of the initiative said. “They scream at people. They threaten people.” CTA’s top official later justified the bullying: some ideas “are so evil that they should never even be presented to the voters,” (emphasis added) he said.”
“The rise of the white-collar CTA provides a good example of a fundamental political shift that took place everywhere in the labor movement. In the aftermath of World War II, at the height of its influence, organized labor was dominated by private workers; as a result, union members were often culturally conservative and economically pro-growth. But as government workers have come to dominate the movement, it has moved left. By the mid-nineties, the CTA was supporting causes well beyond its purview as a collective bargaining agent for teachers. In 1994, for instance, it opposed an initiative that prohibited illegal immigrants from using state government programs and another that banned the state from recognizing gay marriages performed elsewhere. Some union members began to complain that their dues were helping to advance a political agenda that they disagreed with. “They take our money and spend it as they see fit,” says Larry Sand, founder of the California Teachers Empowerment Network, an organization of teachers and former teachers opposed to the CTA’s noneducational politicking.”
“In the past, California could always rely on a rebounding economy to save it from its budgetary excesses. But these days, few view the state as the land of opportunity. Throughout the national recession that began in December 2008 and carried through 2009, California’s unemployment rate consistently ran several points higher than the national rate. Major California companies like Google and Intel have chosen to expand elsewhere, not in their home state. Put off by the high taxes and cumbersome regulatory regime that the public-sector cartel has led the way in foisting on the state, executives now view California as a noxious business environment. In a 2008 survey by a consulting group, Development Counsellors International, business executives rated California the state where they were least likely to locate new operations.”
When you ask too much of non-governmental people, they vote with their feet by leaving or staying and expanding elsewhere. You only get to kill the Golden Goose once.
Cheerio and ttfn, Grant Coulson Cui Bono–Cherchez les Contingencies
This entry was posted on April 20, 2010 at 1:14 am and is filed under Education, Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Do not think about, write about or deal with human behavior without determining the effects of incentives.
Two teachers in Manitoba who did an improvised dance simulating sexually activities in front of students at a “rally” and became stars on Youtube, were fired, supporting my contention that something public and outrageous needs to be done to be fired from teaching. Poor teaching and ineffectiveness won’t even come close to getting one terminated, public outrageousness is required.
And now, for California and what may be the bottom of the trough or just the lowest point so far. I’m mba college in india hoping for trough but betting on continuing decline. California, Ontario and New York have all reached record deficits from governments pandering to government worker unions, spending on “green” and “social” programs using the wonderful power that coercion brings. Add that to no responsibility producing perverse incentives and you have the “failed state syndrome”.
“We wanted the government to do everything for us, but we didn’t want it to make us poor.”
The Beholden State
How public-sector unions broke California
“The unions’ political triumphs have molded a California in which college in punjab government workers thrive at the expense of a struggling private sector. The state’s public school teachers are the highest-paid in the nation. Its prison guards can easily earn six-figure salaries. State workers routinely retire at 55 with pensions higher than their base pay for most of their working life. Meanwhile, what was once the most prosperous state now suffers from an unemployment rate far steeper than the nation’s and a flood of firms and jobs escaping high taxes and stifling regulations. This toxic combination—high public-sector employee costs and sagging economic fortunes—has produced recurring budget crises in Sacramento and in virtually college punjab india every municipality in the state.”
Who could have seen this coming? We’ll just ride the private sector to death and then, because we’re not that bright, wonder why we’re afoot.
“How public employees became members of the elite class in a declining California offers a cautionary tale to the rest of the country, where the same process is happening in slower motion. The story starts half a century ago, when California public workers won bargaining rights and quickly learned how to elect their own bosses—that is, sympathetic politicians who would grant them outsize pay and benefits in exchange for mba college india their support. Over time, the unions have turned the state’s politics completely in their favor. The result: unaffordable benefits for civil servants; fiscal chaos in Sacramento and in cities and towns across the state; and angry taxpayers finally confronting the unionized masters of California’s unsustainable government.”
“Consider the California Teachers Association. Much of the CTA’s clout derives from the fact that, like all government unions, it can help elect the very politicians who negotiate and approve its members’ salaries and benefits. Soon after Proposition 13 became law, the union launched a coordinated statewide effort to support friendly candidates in mba college in punjab school-board races, in which turnout is frequently low and special interests can have a disproportionate influence. In often bitter campaigns, union-backed candidates began sweeping out independent board members. By 1987, even conservative-leaning Orange County saw 83 percent of board seats up for grabs going to union-backed candidates. The resulting change in school-board composition made the boards close allies of the CTA.”
Elect your own bosses. What a swell idea. Maybe they’ll give us a raise.
“Four years later, the CTA reached new heights of thuggishness after a business-backed group began a petition to place a school-choice initiative on mba college in punjab the state ballot. In a union-backed effort, teachers shadowed signature gatherers in shopping malls and aggressively dissuaded people from signing up. The tactic led to more than 40 confrontations and protests of harassment by signature gatherers. “They get in between the signer and the petition,” the head of the initiative said. “They scream at people. They threaten people.” CTA’s top official later justified the bullying: some ideas “are so evil that they should never even be presented to the voters,” (emphasis added) he said.”
“The rise of the white-collar CTA provides a good example of a fundamental political shift college in punjab that took place everywhere in the labor movement. In the aftermath of World War II, at the height of its influence, organized labor was dominated by private workers; as a result, union members were often culturally conservative and economically pro-growth. But as government workers have come to dominate the movement, it has moved left. By the mid-nineties, the CTA was supporting causes well beyond its purview as a collective bargaining agent for teachers. In 1994, for instance, it opposed an initiative that prohibited illegal immigrants from using state government programs and another that banned the state from recognizing gay marriages mba college punjab india performed elsewhere. Some union members began to complain that their dues were helping to advance a political agenda that they disagreed with. “They take our money and spend it as they see fit,” says Larry Sand, founder of the California Teachers Empowerment Network, an organization of teachers and former teachers opposed to the CTA’s noneducational politicking.”
“In the past, California could always rely on a rebounding economy to save it from its budgetary excesses. But these days, few view the state as the land of opportunity. Throughout the national recession that began in December 2008 and carried through 2009, college in india California’s unemployment rate consistently ran several points higher than the national rate. Major California companies like Google and Intel have chosen to expand elsewhere, not in their home state. Put off by the high taxes and cumbersome regulatory regime that the public-sector cartel has led the way in foisting on the state, executives now view California as a noxious business environment. In a 2008 survey by a consulting group, Development Counsellors International, business executives rated California the state where they were least likely to locate new operations.”
When you ask too much of non-governmental people, they vote with their college in india feet by leaving or staying and expanding elsewhere. You only get to kill the Golden Goose once.
Cheerio and ttfn, Grant Coulson Cui Bono–Cherchez les Contingencies
This entry was posted on April 20, 2010 at 1:14 am and is filed under Education, Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
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board of education : California and Other Failed States
board of education
board of education
Do not think about, write about or deal with human behavior without determining the effects of incentives.
Two teachers in Manitoba who did an improvised dance simulating sexually activities in front of students at a “rally” and became stars on Youtube, were fired, supporting my contention that something public and outrageous needs to be done to be fired from teaching. Poor teaching and ineffectiveness won’t even come close to getting one terminated, public outrageousness is required.
And now, for California and what may be the bottom of the trough or just the lowest point so far. I’m hoping for trough but betting on continuing decline. California, Ontario and New York have all reached record deficits from governments pandering to government worker unions, spending on “green” and “social” programs using the wonderful power that coercion brings. Add that to no responsibility producing perverse incentives and you have the “failed state syndrome”.
“We wanted the government to do everything for us, but we didn’t want it to make us poor.”
The Beholden State
How public-sector unions broke California
“The unions’ political triumphs have molded a California in which government workers thrive at the expense of a struggling private sector. The state’s public school teachers are the highest-paid in the nation. Its prison guards can easily earn six-figure salaries. State workers routinely retire at 55 with pensions higher than their base pay for most of their working life. Meanwhile, what was once the most prosperous state now suffers from an unemployment rate far steeper than the nation’s and a flood of firms and jobs escaping high taxes and stifling regulations. This toxic combination—high public-sector employee costs and sagging economic fortunes—has produced recurring budget crises in Sacramento and in virtually every municipality in the state.”
Who could have seen this coming? We’ll just ride the private sector to death and then, because we’re not that bright, wonder why we’re afoot.
“How public employees became members of the elite class in a declining California offers a cautionary tale to the rest of the country, where the same process is happening in slower motion. The story starts half a century ago, when California public workers won bargaining rights and quickly learned how to elect their own bosses—that is, sympathetic politicians who would grant them outsize pay and benefits in exchange for their support. Over time, the unions have turned the state’s politics completely in their favor. The result: unaffordable benefits for civil servants; fiscal chaos in Sacramento and in cities and towns across the state; and angry taxpayers finally confronting the unionized masters of California’s unsustainable government.”
“Consider the California Teachers Association. Much of the CTA’s clout derives from the fact that, like all government unions, it can help elect the very politicians who negotiate and approve its members’ salaries and benefits. Soon after Proposition 13 became law, the union launched a coordinated statewide effort to support friendly candidates in school-board races, in which turnout is frequently low and special interests can have a disproportionate influence. In often bitter campaigns, union-backed candidates began sweeping out independent board members. By 1987, even conservative-leaning Orange County saw 83 percent of board seats up for grabs going to union-backed candidates. The resulting change in school-board composition made the boards close allies of the CTA.”
Elect your own bosses. What a swell idea. Maybe they’ll give us a raise.
“Four years later, the CTA reached new heights of thuggishness after a business-backed group began a petition to place a school-choice initiative on the state ballot. In a union-backed effort, teachers shadowed signature gatherers in shopping malls and aggressively dissuaded people from signing up. The tactic led to more than 40 confrontations and protests of harassment by signature gatherers. “They get in between the signer and the petition,” the head of the initiative said. “They scream at people. They threaten people.” CTA’s top official later justified the bullying: some ideas “are so evil that they should never even be presented to the voters,” (emphasis added) he said.”
“The rise of the white-collar CTA provides a good example of a fundamental political shift that took place everywhere in the labor movement. In the aftermath of World War II, at the height of its influence, organized labor was dominated by private workers; as a result, union members were often culturally conservative and economically pro-growth. But as government workers have come to dominate the movement, it has moved left. By the mid-nineties, the CTA was supporting causes well beyond its purview as a collective bargaining agent for teachers. In 1994, for instance, it opposed an initiative that prohibited illegal immigrants from using state government programs and another that banned the state from recognizing gay marriages performed elsewhere. Some union members began to complain that their dues were helping to advance a political agenda that they disagreed with. “They take our money and spend it as they see fit,” says Larry Sand, founder of the California Teachers Empowerment Network, an organization of teachers and former teachers opposed to the CTA’s noneducational politicking.”
“In the past, California could always rely on a rebounding economy to save it from its budgetary excesses. But these days, few view the state as the land of opportunity. Throughout the national recession that began in December 2008 and carried through 2009, California’s unemployment rate consistently ran several points higher than the national rate. Major California companies like Google and Intel have chosen to expand elsewhere, not in their home state. Put off by the high taxes and cumbersome regulatory regime that the public-sector cartel has led the way in foisting on the state, executives now view California as a noxious business environment. In a 2008 survey by a consulting group, Development Counsellors International, business executives rated California the state where they were least likely to locate new operations.”
When you ask too much of non-governmental people, they vote with their feet by leaving or staying and expanding elsewhere. You only get to kill the Golden Goose once.
Cheerio and ttfn, Grant Coulson Cui Bono–Cherchez les Contingencies
This entry was posted on April 20, 2010 at 1:14 am and is filed under Education, Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Do not think about, write about or deal with human behavior without determining the effects of incentives.
Two teachers in Manitoba who did an improvised dance simulating sexually activities in front of students at a “rally” and became stars on Youtube, were fired, supporting my contention that something public and outrageous needs to be done to be fired from teaching. Poor teaching and ineffectiveness won’t even come close to getting one terminated, public outrageousness is required.
And now, for California and what may be the bottom of the trough or just the lowest point so far. I’m mba college in india hoping for trough but betting on continuing decline. California, Ontario and New York have all reached record deficits from governments pandering to government worker unions, spending on “green” and “social” programs using the wonderful power that coercion brings. Add that to no responsibility producing perverse incentives and you have the “failed state syndrome”.
“We wanted the government to do everything for us, but we didn’t want it to make us poor.”
The Beholden State
How public-sector unions broke California
“The unions’ political triumphs have molded a California in which college in punjab government workers thrive at the expense of a struggling private sector. The state’s public school teachers are the highest-paid in the nation. Its prison guards can easily earn six-figure salaries. State workers routinely retire at 55 with pensions higher than their base pay for most of their working life. Meanwhile, what was once the most prosperous state now suffers from an unemployment rate far steeper than the nation’s and a flood of firms and jobs escaping high taxes and stifling regulations. This toxic combination—high public-sector employee costs and sagging economic fortunes—has produced recurring budget crises in Sacramento and in virtually college punjab india every municipality in the state.”
Who could have seen this coming? We’ll just ride the private sector to death and then, because we’re not that bright, wonder why we’re afoot.
“How public employees became members of the elite class in a declining California offers a cautionary tale to the rest of the country, where the same process is happening in slower motion. The story starts half a century ago, when California public workers won bargaining rights and quickly learned how to elect their own bosses—that is, sympathetic politicians who would grant them outsize pay and benefits in exchange for mba college india their support. Over time, the unions have turned the state’s politics completely in their favor. The result: unaffordable benefits for civil servants; fiscal chaos in Sacramento and in cities and towns across the state; and angry taxpayers finally confronting the unionized masters of California’s unsustainable government.”
“Consider the California Teachers Association. Much of the CTA’s clout derives from the fact that, like all government unions, it can help elect the very politicians who negotiate and approve its members’ salaries and benefits. Soon after Proposition 13 became law, the union launched a coordinated statewide effort to support friendly candidates in mba college in punjab school-board races, in which turnout is frequently low and special interests can have a disproportionate influence. In often bitter campaigns, union-backed candidates began sweeping out independent board members. By 1987, even conservative-leaning Orange County saw 83 percent of board seats up for grabs going to union-backed candidates. The resulting change in school-board composition made the boards close allies of the CTA.”
Elect your own bosses. What a swell idea. Maybe they’ll give us a raise.
“Four years later, the CTA reached new heights of thuggishness after a business-backed group began a petition to place a school-choice initiative on mba college in punjab the state ballot. In a union-backed effort, teachers shadowed signature gatherers in shopping malls and aggressively dissuaded people from signing up. The tactic led to more than 40 confrontations and protests of harassment by signature gatherers. “They get in between the signer and the petition,” the head of the initiative said. “They scream at people. They threaten people.” CTA’s top official later justified the bullying: some ideas “are so evil that they should never even be presented to the voters,” (emphasis added) he said.”
“The rise of the white-collar CTA provides a good example of a fundamental political shift college in punjab that took place everywhere in the labor movement. In the aftermath of World War II, at the height of its influence, organized labor was dominated by private workers; as a result, union members were often culturally conservative and economically pro-growth. But as government workers have come to dominate the movement, it has moved left. By the mid-nineties, the CTA was supporting causes well beyond its purview as a collective bargaining agent for teachers. In 1994, for instance, it opposed an initiative that prohibited illegal immigrants from using state government programs and another that banned the state from recognizing gay marriages mba college punjab india performed elsewhere. Some union members began to complain that their dues were helping to advance a political agenda that they disagreed with. “They take our money and spend it as they see fit,” says Larry Sand, founder of the California Teachers Empowerment Network, an organization of teachers and former teachers opposed to the CTA’s noneducational politicking.”
“In the past, California could always rely on a rebounding economy to save it from its budgetary excesses. But these days, few view the state as the land of opportunity. Throughout the national recession that began in December 2008 and carried through 2009, college in india California’s unemployment rate consistently ran several points higher than the national rate. Major California companies like Google and Intel have chosen to expand elsewhere, not in their home state. Put off by the high taxes and cumbersome regulatory regime that the public-sector cartel has led the way in foisting on the state, executives now view California as a noxious business environment. In a 2008 survey by a consulting group, Development Counsellors International, business executives rated California the state where they were least likely to locate new operations.”
When you ask too much of non-governmental people, they vote with their college in india feet by leaving or staying and expanding elsewhere. You only get to kill the Golden Goose once.
Cheerio and ttfn, Grant Coulson Cui Bono–Cherchez les Contingencies
This entry was posted on April 20, 2010 at 1:14 am and is filed under Education, Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own