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Article: Our view: Teachers' union yields to fiscal blackmail on slots
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- Capital (Annapolis)
- Article date:
- March 24, 2008
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With Senate President Mike Miller pointing a funding gun at its
head, the Maryland State Teachers Association has blinked.
In deciding this month to support a November referendum item that
would legalize slot machines in Maryland, the teachers' union has
determined that the ends justify the means - even if the threat of
exposing students to a spreading gambling culture flies in the face
of what teachers should care about the most.
A good many rank-and-file teachers and even some local teachers'
unions either disagreed with the endorsement or urged the state
union to remain neutral or at least allow more internal debate. But
union leaders voted to support amending the state constitution to ...