A temporary agreement on Washington’s teacher

Posted by admin in Organization on 16-04-2010

Cover two hostile bargaining, Washington prime minister and the city of school teachers’ union Wednesday announced an agreement, the contract will increase income in the preliminary evaluation system, establish the teachers and voluntary authority clear mobile teachers system is based on their effects, rather than seniority.
This agreement is not approved union members and the city council.

In negotiations, a media focus in a union of corruption in the city for many of the poor performance of the schools, and British chancellor, michelle Rhee, early in the six-party talks on the cover of time magazine, waving a broom, her commitment to eliminate indomitable teachers and system.

Include some novel preliminary solution, such as prescribed by the private foundations funds, but experts were divided into exerted far-reaching influences on how they would region of the school system.

“Innovation” is the way with humbly >, the Odden Alan education professor at the university of Wisconsin after talks, describing its settlement. He said it will close the teacher and the traditional full salary structure, based on teacher education and years of experience. “It was a compromise,” said dr Odden.

But emilie Cohen, commission research teachers’ quality of teachers’ contract nationwide, said: “this is a great leap forward.”

The Blue Cross

Posted by admin in Organization on 12-03-2010

Last month, Anthem Blue Cross of California, a descendant of that original Dallas plan, announced that it was raising premiums for some of its customers by 39 percent. A report from the Center for American Progress, a liberal think-tank, showed that Blue Cross plans from other parts of the country had similar ideas in mind. The high prices mean that beneficiaries will struggle to pay premiums–and, in some cases, be forced to give up coverage altogether.

What enabled the Blue Cross plans to succeed was their effective monopoly on the health insurance business. They had a huge, diverse base of customers–one based heavily on large groups of employees, like the Dallas schoolteachers–which meant they had sound finances. The majority of people were relatively healthy, with few medical bills. Their accumulated premiums were sufficient to cover the bills for that small group of people who, because of accident or disease, had much higher bills.

Over time, Blue Cross plans lost more and more healthy customers, leaving a pool of beneficiaries in relatively worse health. In order to finance their medical bills, Blue Cross had to raise everybody’s premiums. With each increase, more and more healthy people fled for cheaper plans, creating a vicious cycle. Eventually, the Blues faced a choice: Start acting like the commercial insurers, in order to compete, or go out of business. They chose the former. Soon Blue Cross plans were screening potential customers, charging them higher premiums or no coverage if they came with pre-existing conditions. Eventually, some of the plans converted outright to for-profit entities.

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