In elementary school, most people learn that one should compliment
one’s friends in public, but criticize them only in private. Fitzgerald has
criticized Governor Scott Walker’s proposed education budget to the Associated
Press, a media conglomerate which is associated with liberal, union interests and
disconnected from the best interest of vouchers, school choice, or freedom in
education for students and parents. State senate majority leader Scott
Fitzgerald needs to go back to school and learn how to treat Walker, his
Republican colleague and leader.
Governor Walker wants to expand the private voucher program
in the state. Giving parents a choice where they enroll their children will
benefit all schools: public, private, and charter. He also wants to freeze per
pupil spending for the public schools, in order to keep private property taxes low.
Most homeowners are forced to pay for a public service which they do not
directly benefit from, while they enjoy less and less on their return. Act 10
freed up school districts to renegotiate contracts with the teachers unions.
Freezing per pupil spending will enforce spending cuts while forcing schools to
live within their means.
Governor Walker wants to give charter schools more autonomy and
offer vouchers to special needs students. Charter schools prosper without public
bureaucratic micromanagement. More freedom means better education. Of any select
student population, students with special needs deserve to choose their
education, public or private.
The state senate majority caucus is without excuse for
raising a ruckus about Governor Walker’s education budget.
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