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D.C. Teacher Contract Talks Still Stuck
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- http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10 /20/AR2009102003574.html - Publication Date:
- October 21, 2009
- Publisher:
- The Washington Post
Excerpt from "D.C. teacher contract talks still stuck" by Bill Turque in the Washington Post:
"...The contract expired Sept. 30, 2007, but remains in force until a new one is negotiated. District teachers have been working without a pay increase for more than two years.
Rhee's supporters say she also needs a new labor contract to implement real reform. 'It's hugely important that they get a contract,' said Andrew Rotherham, a former Clinton White House aide and co-founder of Education Sector, a think tank. 'On substantive grounds, it needs to be reformed, and [on] political grounds the system has to be able to get past this.'
From the outset, the negotiations have been politically charged by Rhee's national stature as an educational change agent. Those who regard unions as an impediment to improving schools saw in her their best chance for a precedent-setting labor contract to break teachers' traditional hold on tenure and job assignments. They contend that those provisions make it difficult to oust ineffective instructors. ..."