Author: Steve Schuck
-
GUEST COLUMN: Competition, choice produce results in schools
Gene Budig and Alan Heaps wrote an article in The Gazette published under the title “Teachers deserve an apology.” In it, Budig and Heaps waxed on about teachers and how “we owe them big time.” They are absolutely spot on, but just about some. Interestingly they never distinguished between those who do their jobs well…
-
GUEST COLUMN: School choice opponents’ misguided arguments
Lois Fornander attacked The Gazette for supporting school vouchers on March 20. She began her screed by referring to “the early days of the school privatization movement in the 1980s.” Wrong! School choice is not now, nor has it ever been, a “privatization movement.” To the contrary, it is, and has always been, a parental…
-
GUEST COLUMN: Strip away the power of public school monopoly
Last week, The Gazette printed two interesting letters. One appeared on Nov. 14 from Frank Case, a self-identified public school teacher who wrote in opposition to teachers being paid on the basis of the performance of their students, defending what he characterized as a socialistic public school system, supporting tenure and unions. Larry Anderson wrote…
-
Subhead
Last week, The Gazette featured an article by Gene Budig and Alan Heaps titled “Any education reform faces significant hurdles.” Readers who might have expected some exciting, cutting-edge proposals were disappointed because all they heard from these two highly credentialed educrats were the same old tired, failed bromides. After announcing the earth shattering news that…
-
Amendments 47, 49, 54 good for state
When did “business leaders” begin carrying the mail for unions? Who, in our business community, decided to get in bed with organized labor and campaign together to defeat Amendments 47, 49 and 54? And why? Amendments 47, 49, and 54 are good for everyone. They will give workers both rights and choice. Amendment 47 will…