And unlike the charter school abuses, traditional public school waste is typically institutional, and written
into teacher union contracts and state law.
Meanwhile, the four have gotten automatic longevity raises and stand to get further raises — and back pay — under the $ 9 billion United Federation
of Teachers union contract ratified last month.
Karen Vieth, a Sennett Middle School teacher, described in her blog delivering a speech at the Chicago Labor Temple in which she drew a connection between the
Chicago teacher union contract negotiations and Madison's upcoming discussions over an employee handbook to replace the current contract.
Once all the
current teacher union contracts expire and individual teachers are free to choose whether to pay dues or not, WEAC hopes to retain 60,000 to 70,000 of that base, he said.
At a panel event Tuesday, District of Columbia Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson said some professional development programs offered in school districts continue, whether they are effective or not, because they are mandated
by teacher union contracts.
The city's Department of Education staffing costs are rising sharply in the wake of a 2014
teachers union contract inked by Mayor de Blasio, according to a watchdog report.
The sticking points are an overly rigid
Madison teachers union contract and a punitive new state law that pretty much makes tinkering with that contract tantamount to killing it.
Madison Prep officials still plan to eventually convert to a charter school, possibly in 2013, after expiration of the school district's
current teachers union contract.
In one of her most significant actions as state education commissioner, MaryEllen Elia has granted Buffalo Superintendent Kriner Cash unprecedented power to make changes at the district's most struggling schools, bypassing
the teachers union contract and sparking a likely court battle.
Members of the new majority elected to the Buffalo School Board Tuesday do not appear to be looking for a major reset regarding Superintendent Kriner Cash and the agenda he has laid out for the schools, but there are some major issues on which they will likely take a different approach — especially when it comes to
the teachers union contract.
An arbitrator with the Public Employment Relations Board has ordered the Buffalo Board of Education not to eliminate the controversial cosmetic surgery rider from
the teacher union contract without negotiating it with the union first
As one former school - board member from a large urban district noted, «Too often school boards and superintendents complain that they can not do something because of
the teachers union contract.
The teacher union contract is more than 200pages long; with the various side agreements and state laws that supplement the terms of the contract, it grows to 600.
KH: I'd count the 2010
teachers union contract.
One of those compensation questions will be
a teachers union contract that is now several years expired.
But Chicago's plan breaks ground not only because it is huge but also because no other city has proposed to replace large numbers of failing, unionized schools by allowing the private sector to create new schools operating outside of
the teachers union contract.
The school leadership operates with broad local control, exemptions from District policies and some waivers from
the teachers union contract, including the unique ability to replace staff at the end of each school year.
And while
the teachers union contract limited class sizes to 35, Escalante could not bring himself to turn students away, packing 50 or more into a room and still helping them to excel.
Almost
every teachers union contract has a salary schedule.
In fact the K - 12 education system in the United States is heavily derived from the combined effect of local school boards, state school codes,
teacher union contracts, and education training programs at universities.