From the International Business Times, what’s happening with some of our pension dollars?
When Massachusetts public school teachers pay into their pension fund each month, they may not realize where the money goes. Wall Street titans are using some of the profits from managing that money to finance an education ballot initiative that many teachers say will harm traditional public schools…
And both Mass Teacher Unions have responded in a Boston Globe report:
The two teachers’ unions battling to defeat the ballot question to expand charter schools are demanding the advocates for the initiative take down a television ad that features Governor Charlie Baker, claiming it is being funded by donations from executives from eight financial firms that manage the state’s pension funds…
And to get a closer look at where the money on both sides of Questions 2 is coming from, see this report from WBUR.