Wisconsin s Capitol Siege, 10 Years On – WSJ

Beyond budget savings, reforms on collective bargaining are essential for getting students back to school and Americans back to work. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky has stated that there are increasing data to suggest that schools can safely reopen and that safe reopening doesn t suggest that teachers need to be vaccinated in order to reopen safely.

Yet union bosses continue to block opening schools. Although our reforms gave Wisconsin school boards more power, unions are pushing to keep schools closed. In Chicago, the mayor and school administrators point to the extensive efforts taken to ensure that schools are safe for students and staff. Still, the union blocks teachers from returning to the classroom even as Catholic schools have been open safely since the fall. In Fairfax County, Va., school administrators and teachers were first in line to get vaccinations yet still refused to reopen the schools.

A decade ago, we saved Wisconsin from a fiscal crisis with bold reforms. America would benefit from enacting similar reforms to balance budgets, break the union control over education and get the nation working again.

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