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Friday, June 22, 2012

Projections. « Fred Klonsky

Projections. « Fred Klonsky:


Projections.


Over my career as a union activist, union president and participant in collective bargaining over many contracts I know this: Figures lie and budget projections are the biggest lies of all.
Every collective bargaining I have ever been involved in starts with the board’s bar graphs showing that five years out, if they give the teachers a raise, the district will be in deficit. And then they hand out the graph that looks