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Friday, 04 October 2013
Newark Teachers Union torpedoes $30 million fed grant because nothing's in it for them
Those teachers unions, always looking out for the children.
It was a late homework assignment and Newark school district officials missed the deadline Thursday, after teachers union officials refused to sign off on an application for $30 million in coveted federal Race to the Top funding.
Newark Teachers Union president, Joseph Del Grosso, [criticized] the application as a waste of money.
"It's riddled with pork," complained Del Grosso, who heads the 4,200-member union. "The thing should be called Race to the Hog because that's what's going on. It's not about funneling money into classrooms."
The dispute led to an hours-long war of words, statements and e-mails between the two sides, as a 4 p.m. deadline for submitting the application came, and then went, with Anderson reaching out to Mayor Cory Booker, members of the city council and other community leaders in an effort to pressure Del Grosso to change his mind.
He never budged, arguing the application allocated no money for putting more teachers in classrooms.
Ah ha! "More teachers in classrooms" == more union members == more union dues!
So the kids lose out on $30 million bucks worth of probably needed stuff, all because the unionistas couldn't skim their vig off the top first.
I'm reminded of the late Albert Shanker's epitaph. Mr. Del Grasso will care
about the children when the children start paying union dues. Until then? Not
so much.
Posted at 15:49 by Chris Wysocki
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