Anti-union Governor Scott Walker (R-WI) likes to play fast and loose with facts. Last month he attracted the attention of educators when he told an Iowa audience that a woman by the name of Megan Sampson, a recipient of the 2010 Outstanding Teacher of the Year, “was laid off” to make room for a teacher protected by union rules.
He attempted to correlate this falsehood with his fight for Act 10 to his his enthusiastic Iowa Republican audience. Act 10 was passed into law in 2011 and is Walker’s “bold way” of dismantling teachers unions and their contracts.
Chatter erupted within education circles about the veracity of Walker’s claims. Turns out, he’s not such an honest guy. Sampson did receive an award in 2010 – something called the Nancy Hoefs Memorial Award – which is given by the Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English (WCTE) for “an outstanding first-year teacher of the English language arts.” She did not, however, receive the award cited by Walker. Additionally, although Sampson had been issued a layoff notice, she was notified weeks later that her layoff status was reversed. She never lost a day of work.
Claudia Klein Felske was the ACTUAL winner of the outstanding teacher of year for 2010-11. In a delicious twist, she also happens to be one of Walker’s Marquette University classmates. Felske decided to call Walker out for his out and out lie of the supposed layoff in an Open Letter published on the Marquette University’s College of Education blog, The Marquette Educator.
BUSTED: Scott Walker Caught Lying – Called Out By Teacher In Open Letter
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