Chicago and every other Union “owned” teachers assoc is stuck on stupid.
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One nice thing about Canada is that with the clear delineation between provincial and federal areas of responsibility and the tendency to have government monopolies in some areas (rather than government intervention everywhere) things tend to be somewhat simpler, which makes it so that even the less conservative parties sometimes make good moves.
Something like 85% of the provincial budget goes for education, which is a virtual provinial monopoly on all levels in Ontario, healthcare, again a monopoly, and debt service. Any liberal (primarily in the small l sense, but alsoe in the large L sense) with half a braind has to be able to see that unless they are willing to entirely gut either education or healthcare each has to tighten the belt—if one cuts debt service, it is game over.
Provincial parties are normally separate agencies from the federal parties of the same names, but, still, Ontario’s Liberal Party has screwed up that province quite well. That they have decided to do battle with a major union is a very good sign that they may be waking up to the damage their ideology has done.