My opinion on government benefits is that it should have a profit/loss mechanism, if the city, state, school cannot balance the budget this year, no retirement funds and cuts in health care are in order next year. There are  no guarantees in the world, just ask the secured bondholders of GM.

For every Wendy Day sitting on school boards, there are about 200 people sitting on school boards that are in the hip pocket of the MEA. To add to the burden of electing non-MEA clones to boards, many local newspapers that could carry news about alternatives are in the hip pocket of the union doing a NY Times clone routine and won't give fair coverage to non-MEA clones.