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I grew up 30 miles from the birthplace of the Republican Party. And I was a public school teacher in that state, the son of two public school teachers in that state.Let me tell you what the Republican Party did to my first career as a public school teacher.First, a little background, because this is actually relevant.Teaching in Wisconsin up to 2010When I was young in the 90’s, the economy was doing pretty well, and the teachers’ union was hauling districts to arbitration over pay raises.See, the private sector was doing great. Folks were getting thousand-dollar bonuses just because the companies were doing awesome. Raises were common, often 4–5% a year.Districts didn’t want to pay that, so the unions took them to arbitration, and arbitrators consistently came back with awards consistent with the prevailing wage increases of the private sector.So Republicans passed a law called the Qualified Economic Offer, or QEO. Basically, as long as the districts and state offered a certain percentage increase, the unions were banned from taking it to arbitration. It was about 2.5–3%. At the time, all my folks’ private sector friends were laughing at my parents.After the dot-com bubble burst and took a sizable piece of the economy with it in the early 2000’s, that laughing turned to resentment after a couple of years when the teachers were still getting raises slightly over the cost of living while the private sector had seen serious contraction.Bush deregulated the health care industry, and premiums and deductibles started skyrocketing. When I was a child, a thousand dollar deductible was considered outrageous and only for catastrophic insurance at the fringes of the market. My uncle recalls that family health insurance when I was a child, whole family insurance with dental and vision, was $40 a month through his employer. By the time I was a teenager, that had more than tripled for the average family.So, suddenly, this QEO was looking no longer like a way to stick it to the teachers and keep them from these massive arbitration awards and resentment grew at the “sweet deal” giving teachers a raise above the private sector every year. So, it was repealed by those same Republicans.I graduated from college right about the Great Recession. I was student teaching while it happened. I watched the markets crash every day when I checked the Dow at the end of school.My mentor teacher had been on a wage freeze for five years. (To pre-empt the peanut gallery, yes, Democrats were in charge of the state during that period. The question asked about what Republicans have done, and it’s not a binary white-hat-black-hat situation.) What she was forced to pay into health insurance had gone up by 10% in that span; literally every year she was making less than the year before in take-home pay.It was pretty grim for teachers at that time in 2008–2009. We all thought it was the bottom.Then the Tea Party took over.Scott Walker and Act 10In 2010, Scott Walker got elected. The very first thing that he did upon taking office in 2011 was to gin up a financial “crisis” for the state by using some accounting tricks to come up with a three-billion-dollar budget shortfall and claiming the state was flat broke.[1] He used this justification to ram through, with as little public debate as possible, breaking multiple open meetings laws and open records laws, a bill called Act 10.[2]Act 10 was aimed at gutting public sector unions, particularly targeting teachers and municipal workers. The police and fire unions, in a naked display of political favoritism, were exempted because they supported Walker’s election bid.The Act kept unions alive in name, but puts draconian restrictions on them. The only thing that the unions can bargain collectively for now is over base wages, capped at inflation and based on the lowest rung of any pay scale used. A 30 year veteran teacher with a master’s degree would only see a raise capped at inflation and based on a first-year teacher’s salary, if any raise were issued at all.Unions now have to recertify every single year, not by a majority of votes cast, but a majority of possible votes. Anyone choosing not to vote is considered a no vote, in other words. Failure to recertify means that the union was dissolved and barred from re-forming for five years.Public sector unions are barred under Act 10 from collecting “fair share” payments. Under Federal laws, unions must represent all workers in a place of employment, whether they are part of the union or not. Fair share laws were designed to fix the “freeloader” problem; they provided a reduced payment collected from non-union employees to offset the cost of the fact that the union had to negotiate their contracts as well.Since the unions now had to cover the entire state’s public employment, but could essentially no longer collect any dues or fair share payments from anyone who didn’t want to pay up, and because they were relegated to essentially powerlessness over any working conditions, union enrollment dropped by more than half virtually overnight.Oh, it gets better.See, Walker made the assumption that teachers paid nothing towards their health care insurance and pensions.Some districts, as a fringe benefit to make up for low salaries, had been paying the employee’s share of the required pension payments. Additionally, unions had made the choice to push for continued benefits like health insurance rather than salary increases over the years. Other districts, especially rural districts with declining enrollment, had been already requiring their teachers to pay more significant costs towards health care for several years already.Walker’s assumption was that every school district had been giving their employees everything for free, and that’s how he sold it to the people of Wisconsin.So, that justified a $1.6 billion dollar cut to public education, which would be “made up” by forcing all teachers to pay more for health insurance and pension costs. It barred districts from making up any of that cut by increasing property taxes. The average district cut was in the millions of dollars.In the first district I taught in, this resulted in every teacher taking between a ten to twenty percent pay cut.Act 10 gutted tenure protections and civil service protections, to “give districts tools” to manage these draconian cuts. It was supposed to make it easier to fire bad teachers. In the hands of honest administrators, it did.In the hands of dishonest administrators, we ended up with what Hustisford School District chose to do: fire every single teacher in the district and offer them their jobs back… at first-year salary. A 30-year veteran teacher with a master’s degree would have to return to work with an effective 50% pay cut, and be paid the same as a teacher fresh out of college with a bachelor’s degree.The UW SystemMore cuts were leveled at the University of Wisconsin System, one of the oldest completely public higher education systems in the nation, and the most extensive system of technical colleges, 2-year colleges, and 4-year institutions in the country. My alma mater was saddled with enough cuts that it is now facing a five-million-dollar-per-year structural deficit. As with the public school districts, those cuts came with specific bars against raising tuition to make up any difference.Walker’s justification was that all of these cushy professors were only teaching one or two classes and worked less than ten hours a week. This was rated “pants on fire,” but that didn’t stop Republicans from reciting the party line.Wisconsin is now absolutely desperate for public teachersAfter eight years of this, Wisconsin’s enrollment in teacher training programs is at record lows. Ten percent of the profession quit within the first year after Act 10 passed.[3] The attrition rate still remains above the national average.Rural districts with low tax bases are especially hard hit. High-tax-base communities like Mequon can afford to pay substantially higher salaries and benefits, and so they poach more qualified or highly-respected teachers from rural or lower-base areas.My brother-in-law, an orchestra teacher, was offered a five-figure signing bonus and a 10% salary increase to switch districts across the state to a wealthier community. Great for him; can’t blame him for taking it. The more rural community he left is now considering cutting the orchestra program because they can’t find a teacher willing to take the job. They’ve been making do with a band director who doesn’t really know strings for two years.It’s gotten so bad that legislators have considered multiple proposals to offer provisional licensure to people who have literally no educational or pedagogy training whatsoever if they have any experience tangentially related to the field they want to teach in.Technology education has been especially hard-hit, because those teachers realized five years ago that they could make twice as much in the private sector as engineers and welders.Morale is at an all time lowMy friends who are sticking it out in education right now are reporting that morale has never picked up even a little bit in the last six years.Communities in general continue to believe that teachers are getting a sweet ride at the public trough, even though more and more of them are needing to take up second jobs to make ends meet. One of my best friends works at Olive Garden three nights a week and on weekends to pay her bills. Another works the security gate for Fleet Farm so he can grade papers while at his second job.In my last year of teaching, I was called a glorified babysitter by a parent at a conference. I did the math on the board right in front of them, just for their kid, for the amount of time I spent with that kid, at $5/hour. It was more than their property taxes. (That parent got pissy and left my room in a huff when I figured the final numbers.)Why did I leave?I was doing nothing but fighting battles for my students. I was putting in, on average, a 75–80 hour work week, and 90 hours a week was not uncommon. I’d get to school at 6:30 am to beat the copier rush, and typically stayed until 5–6 pm working with students, to go home and down a bite of whatever I had in my constantly-running crock pot, and grade and lesson plan until 10 PM to midnight. Lather, rinse, repeat. 12–14 hours on Saturday, often another 6–10 on Sunday; more if the end of a quarter approached.And I made $35,500 for that.The school board came out with a new wage schedule for us that it expected would cover the next thirty years.If I got every raise, every pay scale step increase, got a master’s degree and National Board certification, never got married, had a child, or incurred any serious debts, and assuming the long-term average in the stock markets and that Walker didn’t screw up the pension system (something he’d been considering,) I calculated that I’d likely be able to retire at 76.Seventy-six.If I lived frugally and saved wisely and was very, very lucky.I asked some of my friends what they thought. They all pointed out that I’d considered law school in the past, and that I had a passion for much of what I could do there.I made the decision to apply to law schools, resigned my teaching position, and never looked back. And I have never regretted that decision for a moment.The attitude towards education in the Republican Party has gotten worse, not betterI’ve attended various Republican Party meetings, trying to change things from the inside. I despair that nothing will change their minds, and if anything, anti-intellectualism has gotten more entrenched.From fears over Common Core standards to the pervasive belief that public education is simply a waste of money and we should all go back to private schools and homeschooling, it is clear to me that the beliefs in the Republican Party right now are decidedly against public education.I’ve heard nothing but praise for Betsy DeVos as she attempts to dismantle the Department of Education. (If only it weren’t for that “deep state” that stymies her! Actual thing heard at one of these meetings with knowing nods all around.)A significant majority of the people at these meetings either homeschool their kids or send them to private religious schools. Those who do not are mysteriously quiet and will not meet my eye when I try to get their views on the topic.When I ask about the local schools, most reply that their local public school is pretty good. However, they will invariably tell me that they are absolutely certain that public education itself is failing and that schools elsewhere are terrible because something something PARCC and international tests. Do they know how standardized tests work? No. Would they like me to explain it to them? Eyes glaze over.I’m one of them, you see. Those edumacated folks. Those people who think they know more because they got a piece of paper hanging in their office. (I’ve been told this to my face and heard it plenty of times behind my back.)The Republican Party doesn’t want to see public education. They want to see publicly funded education, and that as limited as possible. They want their children to go to schools that teach an ideology that they want, and to keep their kids away from certain other kids.And so public schools will simply continue to become a dumping ground for high-poverty students and kids with special needs.Elsewhere around the countryRepublican stronghold Kansas has been forced to go to a four-day week amidst teacher shortages because they can’t even fund schools enough to keep the lights on that long. Teachers have to have the four-day week to get second or third jobs to afford to make it work.[4]Teachers are fleeing South Carolina[5] and other typically red states to work in states that are adequately funding education and fostering public respect towards teachers.Why is the Republican Party often portrayed as being against public school teachers?Because my experience, the experience of my colleagues, and the evidence all suggest that they are.Footnotes[1] Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says Wisconsin is broke[2] Wis. Assembly Cuts Union Rights[3] Here's what happened to teachers after Wisconsin gutted its unions[4] Amid teacher shortage, four-day school districts can't afford to go back, superintendents say[5] Classrooms in Crisis: Why SC teachers are quitting in record numbers

Please see the details below in-order to make changes of name in passportA. MINOR CHANGE IN NAMENormal ApplicationDoc 1) Proof of Present Address. For Proof of Address attach one of the following documents in new namea. Water Bill b. Telephone (landline or postpaid mobile bill) c. Electricity bill d. Income Tax Assessment Order e. Election Commission Photo ID card f. Gas connection bill g. Certificate from Employer of reputed and widely known companies on letter head (Only public limited companies can give address proof on company letter head along with seal. Computerised print-outs shall not be entertained) h. Spouse’s passport copy (First and last page including family details), (provided the applicant’s present address matches the address mentioned in the spouse’s passport) i. Parent’s passport copy, in case of minors (First and last page) j. Aadhaar Letter/ Card (Aadhaar letter/card or the e-Aadhaar (an electronically generated letter from the website of UIDAI), as the case may be, will be accepted as Proof of Address (POA) and Proof of Photo-Identity (POI) for availing passport related services. Acceptance of Aadhaar as PoA and PoI would be subject to successful validation with Aadhaar database.) k. Registered Rent Agreement l. Photo passbook of running Bank Account (Scheduled Public Sector Banks, Scheduled Private Sector Indian Banks and Regional Rural Banks only)Note: i) Applicants are required to submit the proof of address of the present address only, irrespective of the date from which he/she has been residing at the given address. However, he/she is required to mention all the place of stay during previous one year in the Passport application form. ii) Any of the remaining documents containing address out of sixteen documents listed under Tatkaal application, could also be accepted as proof of residence if such documents have the same present residential address as given by the applicant in the Passport Application Form. iii) Furnishing of Aadhaar card will expedite processing of passport applicationsDoc 2) Proof of Date of Birth. For Proof of Date of Birth attach one of the following documents in old nameFor applicants born on or after 26.01.89, only Birth Certificate issued by the Municipal Authority or any office authorized to issue Birth and Death Certificate by the Registrar of Births & Deaths is acceptable. The Birth Certificate should ordinarily contain the name of child, name of father and mother, date of birth, place of birth, sex, registration number and date of registration. If the Birth Certificate doesn’t contain the name of child, a declaration on plain paper signed by parents, is required to be submitted specifying the name of the child. a. Birth certificate issued by a Municipal Authority or any office authorized to issue Birth and Death Certificate by the Registrar of Births & Deaths b. School leaving certificate / Secondary School leaving certificate/ Certificate of Recognized Boards from the school last attended by the applicant or any other recognized educational institution c. Affidavit sworn before a Magistrate/Notary stating date/place of birth as per the specimen in Annexure "A" by illiterate or semi-illiterate applicants (Less than 5th class).Doc 3) If the applicant is eligible for Non ECR - Documents in old name are allowedDocumentary proof for any one of the Non-ECR (previously ECNR) categories,An applicant will be eligible for non-ECR status if the applicant falls in any one of the following categories and provides documentary proof thereof:a) All holders of Diplomatic/Official passports b) All Gazetted Government servants, their spouses and dependent children c) All persons having educational qualification of matriculation (pass) and above d) All persons above the age of 50 years e) All children up to the age of 18 years wishing to obtain short validity passport. (For re-issue of passport, after they attain the age of 18 years, documents to prove their non-ECR category have to be submitted, else ECR stamping will be done) f) All children between 15 and 18 years of age wishing to obtain full validity passport of 10 years have to submit documents to prove their non-ECR category, else ECR stamping will be done. g) Income-Tax payers (including Agricultural Income-Tax payees) in their individual capacity, their spouses and dependent children. Following documents have to be submitted: o Proof of assessment of income tax and actual payment of income tax for last one year; or o Income Tax return statement (with income tax being paid by the applicant) for last one year that is stamped by income tax authorities and a copy of the PAN card. Applicants submitting NIL income tax return statements are not eligible. h) Persons possessing two years diploma from any institute recognized by the National Council for Vocational Training (NCVT) or State Council of Vocational Training (SCVT), or persons holding three years diploma/equivalent degree from institutions, such as Polytechnics recognized by the Central/State Governments of India i) Nurses possessing qualifications recognized under the Indian Nursing Council Act, 1947 j) All professional degree holders, their spouses and dependent children. Examples of professional degree holders are Doctors holding MBBS degree or equivalent degree in Ayurved or Homeopathy, accredited Journalists, Engineers, Chartered Accountants, Cost Accountants, Lecturers, Teachers, Scientists, Advocates, etc. k) All persons who have been staying abroad for more than three years (the period of three years may or may not be continuous) and their spouses. For the purpose of verification, spouse name should be endorsed on each others passport. l) Seamen who are in possession of Continuous Discharge Certificate (CDC), or Sea Cadets and Deck Cadets - (i). Who have passed the final examination of three years http://B.Sc. Nautical Sciences courses at T.S. Chanakya, Mumbai; and (ii). Who have undergone three months pre-sea training at any of the Government approved training institutes, such as T.S. Chanakya, T.S. Rehman, T.S. Jawahar, MTI (SCI) and NIPM, CHENNAI, after production of identity cards issued by the Shipping Master at Mumbai/Kolkata/Chennai. m) Persons holding Permanent Immigration visa or documents like Green Card, Permanent Residence Card etc.Doc 48) Deed poll/sworn affidavit as per Annexure "E"MINOR CHANGE IN NAMEFor TatkaalDoc 1) Proof of Present Address. For Proof of Address attach one of the documents in new name (As above)Doc 2) Proof of Date of Birth. For Proof of Date of Birth attach one of the documents in old name (As above)Doc 3) If the applicant is eligible for Non ECR - Documents in old name are allowedDoc 48) Deed poll/sworn affidavit as per Annexure "E"Doc 52) Standard Affidavit as per Annexure "I"Doc 49) Verification Certificate as per the specimen as per Annexure "F"orDoc 54) Three out of 16 documents listed below:a. Electors Photo Identity Card (EPIC); b. Service Photo Identity Card issued by State/Central Government, Public Sector Undertakings, local bodies or Public Limited Companies; c. SC/ST/ OBC Certificates; d. Freedom Fighter Identity Cards; e. Arms Licenses; f. Property Documents such as Pattas, Registered Deeds etc.; g. Pension Documents such as ex-servicemen’s Pension Book/Pension Payment order, ex-servicemen’s Widow/Dependent Certificates, Old Age Pension Order, Widow Pension Order h. Railway Identity Cards; i. Income Tax Identity (PAN) Cards; j. Bank/ Kisan/ Post Office Passbooks; k. Student Photo Identity Cards issued by Government Recognized Educational Institutions in respect of full time courses; l. Driving Licenses (valid and within the jurisdiction of State of submission of application); m. Birth Certificates issued under the RBD Act n. Gas Connection Bill o. Aadhaar Letter/Card p. Registered Rent AgreementNOTE 3: All above documents are required to be produced in original along with self-attested copies.B. MAJOR CHANGE IN NAMENormal ApplicationDoc 1) In new name (As above)Doc 2) In old name (As above)Doc 3) If the applicant is eligible for Non ECR - Documents in old name are allowed (As above)Doc 13) Paper clipping of two leading daily newspapers in original (one daily newspaper should be of the area of Applicant’s Permanent Address and the other at Current Address or nearby area)Doc 48) Deed poll/sworn affidavit as per Annexure "E"For Tatkaal - Cannot apply under Tatkaal SchemeC. CHANGE/ ADDITION IN SURNAME DO TO MARRIAGENormal ApplicationDoc 1, 2, 3 (As above)- If the applicant is eligible for Non ECRDoc 14) An attested copy of marriage certificate issued by Registrar of MarriageorDoc 47) A joint affidavit from husband and wife along with a joint photograph, (Specimen at Annexure "D") When joint affidavit is not possible the affidavit should indicate the reason for it. If applying for passport for the first time, this affidavit is required only if there is a change in the first name.For TatkaalDoc 1, 2, 3 (As above) If the applicant is eligible for Non ECRDoc 52) Standard Affidavit as per Annexure "I"Doc 14) An attested copy of marriage certificate issued by Registrar of MarriageorDoc 47) A joint affidavit from husband and wife along with a joint photograph, (Specimen at Annexure "D") When joint affidavit is not possible the affidavit should indicate the reason for it. If applying for passport for the first time, this affidavit is required only if there is a change in the first name.Doc 49) Verification Certificate as per the specimen as per Annexure "F"orDoc 54) Three out of 16 documents listed below:a. Electors Photo Identity Card (EPIC); b. Service Photo Identity Card issued by State/Central Government, Public Sector Undertakings, local bodies or Public Limited Companies; c. SC/ST/ OBC Certificates; d. Freedom Fighter Identity Cards; e. Arms Licenses; f. Property Documents such as Pattas, Registered Deeds etc.; g. Pension Documents such as ex-servicemen’s Pension Book/Pension Payment order, ex-servicemen’s Widow/Dependent Certificates, Old Age Pension Order, Widow Pension Order h. Railway Identity Cards; i. Income Tax Identity (PAN) Cards; j. Bank/ Kisan/ Post Office Passbooks; k. Student Photo Identity Cards issued by Government Recognized Educational Institutions in respect of full time courses; l. Driving Licenses (valid and within the jurisdiction of State of submission of application); m. Birth Certificates issued under the RBD Act n. Gas Connection Bill o. Aadhaar Letter/Card p. Registered Rent AgreementNOTE 3: All above documents are required to be produced in original along with self-attested copies.NOTE - Please refer the source below for models of affidavit and details of annexureSource - http://www.passportindia.gov.in/AppOnlineProject/pdf/ApplicationformInstructionBooklet-V3.0.pdf

So 3 thingsSocial Security should not be underfunded - but the federal government has borrowed from it. It has a few systemic issues that could have been adjusted if our “leaders” had the will to do it.Initially Social Security was a safety net - and when the average life expectancy was 65 years 1/2 of the people paying in would not live to receive benefitsAdditionally the birth rate was higher - so more people were paying inOne fix would be to keep the benefits the same and remove the cap on income so those making more than $137700 , note they have slowly been increasing it over the years, but it is an “instant” 6.5% tax reduduction that many people in that income bracket would not miss. Not to say it is “fair” to pay in and not reap the benefits - but as a married person without children - life is unfair, I do not get extra deductions just for having kids, I pay taxes that go to schools, etc. All this is a bargain you make for a better functioning society - so removing the cap in income helps to support our elders who have worked a long time - I thnk that is a fair compromise.Another fix is raising the retirement age which has been done - as (phased in) life expectancy has increased and the length of time people are in retirement has also increased. Yes working longer is not a expected- but if you are healthy enough to work until you are 70 be thankful. Many are not.State and local governments (teachers, etc.) were hired with certain expectations - and agreements - part of that is lower (relative to the private sector) wages in exchange for benefits such as pension and retirement after specific years of service.These agreements are not tied to social securityIt is up to individual municipalities and state governments and their budgetting to determine what is fair. And hopefully not claw back what was promised.I know I would not be happy if my employer promised me a pension (not lucky enough to have had a job that offered one - or more specifically never have been at a place long enough to qualify) then take it away or adjust it prior to or worse after I retired. Many places I have worked offered early retirement as an incentive during layoffs to reduce staff.Many jobs, police, fire, airlines all have offered (or forced) retirement after so many years (typically 30) or at age 60 (for pilots though that has now changed) again these agreements - are part of union negotiations and part of the mix for salary and benefits -How is this tax payers expense?Is this because they are public sector jobs? Teaching is necessary - pbulic schools educate our children - and after 30 or more years I a teacher has the right to retire - this was part of the benefits stated when they were hired. Teachers are woefully underpaid for what they do - and I know many perceive teaching as an easy job only “6 hours a day and a summer break” -Teachers spend 6 hours day teaching - plus at least 30 minutes before and after class ensuring students arrive and get to their buses ok (older children not so much) They spend 1–2 (at least) preparing for the next days lessons, contect for each of the “levels” of the students they have to reach. They grade home work, tests, etc. Turn in report cards, document disciplinary issues, learning difficulties. Teachers have to keep up certifications -so take additional classes, etc.The money for pensions should have been allocated as part co the salary - and put aside and invested in the years the teacher was teaching. If the local municipalities underfunded the pensions - and need to increase taxes because of it - that is not the teachers fault/responsibility. Many have paid the prices as states and local government reduce promised retirement benefits, increase health care costs that were expected to be covered. (Reduced retirement benefits 30% or more) Again this should not have happened if governments (like many businesses) had not failed to fully fund pensions. [I am thinking of auto and airline industries]Finally - Social security does not kick in until at least age 62 - so the teachers should be living solely on their pension and any other savings they have (and/or a spouses income) So not on the tax payers dimeNote Social Security is a benefit that people paid into - not a handout - could it be re-worked maybe, would it be better for the younger generation - possibly - but if we change it many people in the middle will be impacted - how to fix it needs to be worked on, and should have been done 10–15 years or more ago - but politicians are only worried about the next election so have been kicking it (and other longer term items) down the road.