(Chicago Sun Times) — The Chicago Teachers Union was among seven organizations Wednesday to demand that Chicago move to a 13-member elected school board that would strip the next mayor of the power to appoint board members. Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis and others contended an array of reforms under a board appointed by […]
(Washington Post) — The new president of the Washington Teachers’ Union said Wednesday that he would cooperate with D.C. school officials in implementing the labor contract he vehemently opposed last spring. But Nathan Saunders also said he would be far more aggressive than his predecessor in ensuring that teachers’ voices are heard when policy gets […]
(Washington Informer) — One month after D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee and Washington Teachers’ Union (WTU) president George Parker announced one of the nation’s most innovative collective bargaining agreements, District officials are struggling to fund the teachers’ contract. What appeared to be a happy ending to a tumultuous, two-year negotiation, took a […]
(Atlanta Journal Constitution) — Georgia’s second largest teachers’ group said Wednesday it will send a letter to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan formally opposing the state’s bid for new federal school reform grants. The announcement by the 43,000-member Georgia Association of Educators comes on the heels of a legislative victory it shared last week with […]