Meh.
The Forbes piece looks like a hatchet job. My reading of the e-mail is that they were transferring previous teaching credit, not getting a "$1M pension" after working a day.
Why shouldn't a union rep be able to join the same pension system as the teachers he represents?
He was 59 in 2011. I don't think he's going to be collecting a pension for ~ 30 years...
Tribune:
The Forbes piece says he would get $37k in 2014. Someone needs to get their numbers straight.
Maybe I'm misreading it, maybe there is a huge scandal here, but I don't have time to dig more. I'm suspicious though.
Education is vitally important and needs to work better. But riling up the lizard brain (as the Forbes and Tribune pieces seem to be doing) isn't the way to do it.
FWIW.
Cheers,
Scott.
Why shouldn't a union rep be able to join the same pension system as the teachers he represents?
He was 59 in 2011. I don't think he's going to be collecting a pension for ~ 30 years...
Tribune:
His paycheck fluctuates as a union lobbyist, but pension records show his earnings in the last school year were at least $245,000. Based on his salary history so far, he could earn a pension of about $108,000 a year, more than double what the average teacher receives.
The Forbes piece says he would get $37k in 2014. Someone needs to get their numbers straight.
Maybe I'm misreading it, maybe there is a huge scandal here, but I don't have time to dig more. I'm suspicious though.
Education is vitally important and needs to work better. But riling up the lizard brain (as the Forbes and Tribune pieces seem to be doing) isn't the way to do it.
FWIW.
Cheers,
Scott.