Daily Topics - Tuesday September 10th, 2013
By shawnt56
Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE daily (M-F) 3-6pm ET!!
Hour One: Did Putin & Obama outsmart the Republican Party?
Hour Two: Rep. Pocan on Syria - Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District)
Hour Three: Conservative make-over for teacher's pensions? Marcus Winters, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
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I read the Civic Report from the Manhattan Institute titled "Better Pay, Fairer Teacher Compenstion." The author had a hard time explaining to Tom how the alternative approach would work. It's based on which formula is used. From my understanding, the amount of "money" is the same, but a greater portion is shifted to professionals who may leave teaching after 20 years rather than staying for a career of 30+ years. I show the formulas below. Most of the data in the report referenced large school systems, not small districts where teachers are part of the community, stay for a lifetime, and get a modest pension.
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Russia and the U.S. just played good-cop bad-cop with Syria.