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Jul. 20th, 2011 12:18 pmYeah, I had a feeling that when people started digging into the actual numbers of the Kaukauna school district's budget and digging into the things that brought them about, it wouldn't be the rosy "See, Scott Walker was right and unions are wrong and it really was totally about fixing budgets and not about union busting!" story originally bruited about.
http://bdgrdemocracy.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/kaukauna-school-board-and-scott-walker-have-something-in-common-budgeting-is-not-about-the-money-its-about-union-busting/#comments
Let's see.... a small deficit caused by reductions in the state government's aid to local school districts, which Scott Walker advocated.... exacerbated by a peculiar new accounting method which takes into account both present *and future* fixed costs, such as post-retirement benefits, into the current budgetary cycle, despite the future costs not being actually applicable against current revenues.... and followed up with the unions trying to bargain changes to their members' contracts in good faith in order to fix the gap, but being ignored by local politicians in order to let the new state budget's terms come into force instead.
Nice.
http://bdgrdemocracy.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/kaukauna-school-board-and-scott-walker-have-something-in-common-budgeting-is-not-about-the-money-its-about-union-busting/#comments
Let's see.... a small deficit caused by reductions in the state government's aid to local school districts, which Scott Walker advocated.... exacerbated by a peculiar new accounting method which takes into account both present *and future* fixed costs, such as post-retirement benefits, into the current budgetary cycle, despite the future costs not being actually applicable against current revenues.... and followed up with the unions trying to bargain changes to their members' contracts in good faith in order to fix the gap, but being ignored by local politicians in order to let the new state budget's terms come into force instead.
Nice.
