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To: mistermj who wrote (165958)	7/13/2011 9:34:17 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (2) of 541832

Walker Reforms Produce Cash Windfall For School Districts Here is the deal with that. I lived in Chicago and was active in school reform when it passed in the 1980s, and Paul Vallas was appointed the superintendent of the Chicago school system. He found hundreds of millions of dollars of savings in the first few months, with almost all of it coming from renegotiating contracts like the health insurance contract among others. It had zero to do with the union, which wasn't touched. It was, as he put it back then, "low handing fruit," the result of corruption and/or incompetence in the school board itself--some of them political appointees. Furthermore, the article you point to manages to never say that the teachers' unions were willing to contribute to their health care and work with school boards to cover their deficits. The author pretends or implies that somehow this was due to Walkers' assault on the union, but that simply isn't so. These things will get sorted out over time, but I am quite sure that there will be many similar hatchet jobs like this one produced over the next year.

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