INDIANAPOLIS - Two men who typically are rivals - State Superintendent Tony Bennett and Indiana State Teachers' Association President Nate Schnellenberger - sat elbow-to-elbow on Tuesday, the day before the start of what is expected to be a four-month-long battle over education reform in the Indiana General Assembly. The first half of the event, as they promoted mentoring, the cause they were there to advocate, went smoothly. But their differences were on display later, as they answered questions about Indiana education policies.
NASHVILLE - The state's new education chief - and his boss, Gov. Bill Haslam - declined to weigh in Thursday on the most controversial education issue facing Tennessee in years: banning collective bargaining by teachers. Haslam named Kevin Huffman, 40, as commissioner of the state Department of Education, replacing Patrick Smith from former governor Phil Bredesen's tenure. Huffman spent two years as a classroom teacher, then became a lawyer, and most recently was an executive at Teach for America, the national organization that recruits recent college graduates into teaching.
Collective bargaining between the Colorado Springs Education Association and Colorado Springs School District D-11 continued Monday - in private. The D-11 board last week had asked the union to open negotiation meetings to the public beginning Monday.
The Columbia Board of Education is in a sticky situation when it comes to collective bargaining, but doing nothing isn't an option. People have this idea the district can say we're not going to enter into collective bargaining," board member Helen Wade said. "We can't do that. As the law stands, we have an obligation to allow for that to occur.
Lost in all the commotion this week about collective bargaining in Columbus was this back-page news: Eric Fingerhut resigned as chancellor of higher education. Four years ago, Mr. Fingerhut might have seemed an improbable figure to so quickly leave a big mark on Ohio, but that he did.
NASHVILLE - Key votes are set for this week in the state legislature that will determine whether collective bargaining by local public school teachers ends in Tennessee after nearly 35 years. The state Senate Education Committee is scheduled to consider on Wednesday a revised version of the Republican bill to end collective bargaining between local school boards and local teachers associations. As promised by its supporters, the new Senate proposal released Friday maintains the elimination of collective bargaining that was in the original bill but replaces it with policy manuals that teachers, parents and the public will have "input" into but which school boards will ultimately write and adopt.
SCOTT WALKER, the new Republican governor of Wisconsin, took a page from the Chris Christie playbook and is demanding that public employees pay more for their health insurance and contribute more into their pension funds. If that's not enough, Walker also wants to severely limit the use of collective bargaining by public employee unions. For all his bombast and bluster, it would be hard to imagine Governor Christie going down the same road. While the governor has been aggressively reducing the power of public-sector unions, in particular, the New Jersey Education Association, he is an unlikely candidate to attack collective bargaining.
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