Teachers unions respond to Corbett's freeze request

[femmocrat]

Will public school teachers agree to the pay freeze requested by Gov. Tom Corbett?

Pennsylvania State Education Association president James Testerman weighed in Wednesday with a letter to the locals of the state's largest teachers union.

"I encouraged them to enter into discussion with their school boards about a pay freeze or other cost-saving measures to maintain their class sizes and academic programs," he said in a news release.

But Ted Kirsch, president of the American Federation of Teachers-Pennsylvania, said, "Why is it they're (Corbett administration) just asking teachers to make sacrifices when we have a source of potential income (Marcellus Shale) that's been totally ignored? ...


Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11076/1132586-454.stm#ixzz1GuZpNqGr

Resign now, Mr. Testerman, you sell-out!!!

[blue neen]

1. Mr. Kirsch is right.

The entire state is suffering because of Governor's Gasshole's no-tax pledge on Marcellus Shale Drilling.

If these are such boom times in Pennsylvania, why are only the rich seeing any benefit?