Can't blame WEAC for not trusting Walker on school accountability

Chris Rickert:

I feel you, Wisconsin Education Association Council; I don't trust Gov. Scott Walker, either.

But so far as I know, he's not trying to kill me.

This might be the key distinction in judging WEAC's decision to skip out on a Walker-associated effort to devise an accountability system for Wisconsin schools; one would think the state's largest teachers union would want to be a part of that.

Last week, WEAC president Mary Bell seemed to indicate it all came down to trust.

"How can we trust the governor to be a credible partner on education issues when they just passed laws to make massive cuts to school funding and silence our voices in schools?" she asked.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at August 2, 2011 2:27 AM
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