All Posts Tagged: 'Collective Bargaining'


School Turnaround “Fresh Start” + Teacher Seniority = Lawsuit

February 26th, 2010 | Category: Accountability, Teacher Quality

This Wednesday, the ACLU brought a lawsuit against Los Angeles Unified to stop anticipated layoffs at three low performing schools that were decimated by last year’s layoffs. We will be featuring one of the schools, Markham Middle School in an upcoming report on school restructuring and know some of the details about the schools recent [...]

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Backward, Forward, Upside-Down

September 4th, 2008 | Category: Teacher Quality

Last week, Post business columnist Steven Pearstein praised the Fenty/Rhee proposal to pay teachers much more money in exchange for more accountability and less tenure. In doing so, he also acknowledged the tradeoffs and potential complications:
Sure, there will be times when teachers will be treated in an arbitrary and capricious way if they give up [...]

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Will Not

April 24th, 2008 | Category: Accountability

When you’ve been in the column-writing business as long as George Will, I imagine things start to settle into a pretty workmanlike routine: open up the planning calendar, select a slot a few months in advance, and pencil in: “Another terrible, terrible education column. For material, see: previous terrible, terrible education columns, slightly rephrased.” Sadly, [...]

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Teachers, Unions, Money

January 8th, 2007 | Category: Teacher Quality

Education Sector has released a new report authored by Marguerite Roza of the University of Washington and the Center on Reinventing Public Education, analyzing the fiscal impact of teacher contracts. Titled “Frozen Assets,” the paper finds that roughly $77 billion nationwide is tied up in supporting contracts provisions that have a weak relationship with student [...]

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Boundaries

January 2nd, 2007 | Category: Teacher Quality

That you can learn a lot from the things people say goes without saying.
For example, AFTie Michelle recently came across a teacher policy paper that my Quick+ED colleague Sara Mead wrote with Andrew Leigh a couple of years ago. Citing research from Caroline Hoxby, the paper posited that:
“collective bargaining agreements that compressed teacher pay scales [...]

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Is it a Bargain? Two Experts Debate Collective Bargaining

May 25th, 2006 | Category: Podcasts, Teacher Quality

In this podcasts, two national experts—Howard Nelson of the American Federation of Teachers and Michelle Rhee of The New Teacher Project—debate teacher staffing rules in collective bargaining contracts.

Participants:
Andrew J. Rotherham, Co-director, Education Sector (Introductions)
Bess Keller, Assistant Editor, Education Week (Moderator)
F. Howard Nelson, Lead Researcher in the Office of the President, American Federation of Teachers
Michelle Rhee, [...]

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