Education Department Downsizing a ‘Good Step’
“While the DoED downsizing is a good step, the principal battlegrounds for genuine school reform have been and will continue to be in the state capitals."
Parents with children attending El Marino Language School in Culver City, California are up in arms, as a local union wants to force the unionization parent volunteers at the local public schools. Parents have formed non-profit booster clubs to fundraise for and hire part-time teacher’s helpers, who also mostly come from the ranks of the parents themselves. But that is unacceptable for the union activists of the Culver City Association of Classified Employees.
The union wants the parents to continue to fundraise, but to send the funds directly to the school district so the district can then hire union employees to fill the part-time positions.
“While the DoED downsizing is a good step, the principal battlegrounds for genuine school reform have been and will continue to be in the state capitals."
Big Labor’s growing budgetary power fuels bureaucratic bloat in public schools, driving up costs without improving education for students or taxpayers.
“Idaho prospects are better this year than in 2021, thanks to significant turnover in the Republican primaries last year in both chambers of the Idaho Legislature,” said Mr. Kalb.