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Teachers union election: results in tomorrow | GothamSchools

Teachers union election: results in tomorrow | GothamSchools

Teachers union election: results in tomorrow


In part three of a rough guide to the upcoming teachers union elections, here’s a look at what happens tomorrow when the ballots are counted.
The ballots — or at least those belonging to the minority of teachers who vote in union elections — are in.
Due today to the American Arbitration Association, which oversees the city’s teachers union election, the ballots will be counted tomorrow and results should be in by the end of the day. The counting is set to take place in a unlikely setting: the Manhattan Skyline room at the Park Central Hotel.
Every election cycle, the AAA rents a hotel room and fills it with employees who run the thousands of ballots through scanners to count them. Hundreds of those votes are rejected for reasons that include casting