The Republican war on Wisconsin's public schools New legislation will wreak havoc on education.

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By Ruth Conniff 01/30/2014 .....who is awesome by the way.


"When some think tank comes up with the legislation and tells you not to fool with it, why are you even a legislator anymore?" he asks. "You just sit there and take votes, and you're kind of a feudal serf for folks with a lot of money." Sen. Dale Schultz




Sen. Dale Schultz, Republican of Richland Center, is stepping down, taking with him the last shred of sanity in our state's Republican Party.

Schultz, who describes himself as "center right," earned the enmity of his party's leaders -- and an aggressive primary challenge -- when he refused to support Gov. Scott Walker's attack on teachers. He didn't go along when Walker ended public employees' collective bargaining rights, or when state Republicans decided to subvert environmental regulations and local control for the Gogebic Taconite mining company.

His affability, his seriousness about crafting good public policy and his sense that his job is to represent his constituents, not out-of-state business interests, puts Schultz badly out of step.

It was Schultz who pointed out that his colleagues' plans to siphon tax dollars into private schools, even as they slash funds for public education, means setting up two parallel school systems.

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http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=41942


Dale Schultz is a center right Honest republican, who will not be running for re-election. I sometimes wonder if he isn't sorta Wisconsin's political reincarnation of John Welch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_N._Welch

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1. I am not surprised Scotty hates teachers.

His attitude about school is best exemplified by his student years at Marquette University in Milwaukee. He spent four years in school, but didn't earn enough credits to graduate.
I think he sees himself as a self made genius, and he doesn't value a formal education (in spite of the evidence of hundreds of years of success of higher education). He doesn't recognize He was picked by political bosses for his ability to follow orders. He absolutely toes the party line without question. He is the epitome of a corporate drone.

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2. kick