If you’re a teacher who just wants to teach, get paid a decent salary, keep your head down and change lives, I’m afraid your union doesn’t have the same idea. It doesn’t just want fair pay, your union WANTS ALL OF IT.

There’s bill to kill local control and roll all teachers pensions/insurance into one plan that only serves to strengthen the union—not the classroom. House Minority leader, Wayne Scott has an opinion on it here.

Here’s another bill to kill the Charter School efforts by thousands of Oregonians. But it kills one school in particular: the Connections Academy. It’s an online school. Oregon’s certified smart education guys say, ‘You know this distance learning thing…not real big here. Not a good thing here.’ Or words to that effect. I’m sure they’re right. This distance learning thing would never be effective at Harvard or University of Washington or Stanford or …