California teachers union, mostly

The nation’s second largest teacher’s union is putting $1 million behind a new television and digital ad campaign urging the GOP-controlled Senate to provide additional funding to schools to deal with the coronavirus outbreak.

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) said that in additional to current funding levels, U.S. schools need an additional $116.5 billion to meet “public health, well-being and instructional needs of students, teachers and school staff in order to reopen safely.” That comes out to about $1.2 million per school for instructional staff, new distance learning programs, personal protective gear, cleaning supplies, health staffing and other resources.

It has come down to public sector unions in battle. This will be a long arduous battle of the generatios to determine who pays for the unfunded teachers pensions.

What is missing from the equation?  My organization of small state governors with IQs above room temperature. Without them, we have a problem in the senate, we will get a shitload of deranges philosopher senate members, and, at this point a sudden stop.

Trump Officials Push Schools to Reopen, Setting up a Fight

This is the kind of grandstanding that kills the small states. How do they compete when the battle is Trump vs California teachers union?  They cannot compete, they cannot be prepared for the outcome since it likely will not scale in their system. They have no choice, the small state governors will retreat into their designed ignorance, leaving the field to philosophers and other nutcases, like Bernie, Cotton and Graham.

This is going to be a mess, but we knew we were headed here, right? Did anyone ever doubt it would come to this?

This is why I needed the small states to jump out first and get their explicit payout. My plan requires the small state governors have both liquidity and brains to understand and adapt to these national battles between the large states and the Federales.