How can Walker break a contract the state made with the

Unions? If he can just arbitrarily break a contract like that, what's to stop anyone who wants out of a contract from breaking it "just cause they want to". I didn't know a contract is that fragile in the eyes of the law.

effectively making Wisc. a right to Work State. I'm not an atty. but that's my guess.

Arne said Race to the Top winnners should not cave to unions. That was enough to start the landslide. FL is about to break contracts also.

They are being very creative

"Redefined out of teaching

Like many others caught up in the so-called Race To The Top, she is an experienced teacher with National Board Certification. She wasn't fired for cause or for poor evaluations. Rather, a letter in the mail notified her simply, that she had been "honorably discharged." She fell victim to the latest trick being used by CEO Huberman and the board to circumvent and ultimately destroy its collective bargaining contract with the CTU. It's called redefinition.

Instead of actually firing teachers, the board does an end run around the contract by simply closing out or redefining their positions. This enables them, or the school principal, to replace veteran or tenured teachers with younger, lower-paid, often non-certified teachers, or teachers teaching out of their field. Lately it's been used to satisfy the district's contractual agreement with Teach For America. In this case, a new principal was most likely pressured by superiors to "clean house" and pick their own staff."

Arne has pitted public schools against charters in his efforts to privatize the schools.

Walker wants certain changes in benefits (maybe other things, I don't know) in the new contract. He also wants the law changed which allowed public sector workers in WI collective bargaining rights. What a previous legislature granted (collective bargaining) the current one can take away with a new law. That is what the fight is about.