text: Do school patrons stuck with mediocre schools feel valued? How’s their sense of security? What about those Hoosier teachers who want to be free of union rules? Or the best teachers, whose salaries are capped by lowest-common-denominator contracts?
  The one thing the governor made perfectly clear this week is that he is not eager to change any of this. He has dreams of the White House; he is practicing the politics of convenience in limiting collective bargaining “solely” to compensation. He calls it reform.
  And he not only didn’t lift a finger for right-to-work legislation he muddied it to the point that the Senate Pro Tem had to promise to form a committee to study it.
  Is this what the Indiana GOP considers getting tough with a special interest that has a stranglehold on the state economy through mandatory membership and dues? Or on the public-sector side, one that for 30 years has perverted our educational mission from the teaching of young students to the hiring of adult cronies?