Many states are changing the contract, evaluation, and collective bargaining rules for teachers. (kappanonline.org)
Few of us could have predicted that the changes that are now present today — including the abolition of collective bargaining rules in Wisconsin — would have come to pass in exactly the way it has, and even fewer would have been able to explain how the federal Race to the Top initiative (along with earlier reforms including the No Child Left Behind Act) would have led to all this. (dropoutnation.net)
Increases in state aid to local schools, changes in collective bargaining rules, and tougher high school graduation requirements were among the proposals Gov. James E. Doyle outlined last week in his third State of the State Address. (edweek.org)