The Investicrats

The great education spending swindle is never-ending for the teachers unions.

By Larry Sand June 18, 2019

Their whine never stops. While I and many others have been writing about the enormous sum of money spent on education for years, the “investicrats,” those who constantly demand that even more must be allocated, show no sign of leaving the building. Perhaps the most deeply entrenched of this genus is one Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.

A few weeks ago, the union leader penned “Investing in the schools our children deserve,” an editorial for the New York Times in which she rolls out the usual bushwa. She claims that in 1998, California’s Prop. 13 ushered in an era of “educational austerity.” Weingarten also trots out another golden oldie that education is being starved by politicians who are “deliberately siphoning off funds for privatization” or to “finance tax cuts for corporations and the superrich.”...........To Read More....