Randi Weingarten responded to What Effect Will D.C. Teachers' New Contract Have? on June 11, 2010 09:29 AM
Not a National Model--For Many Reasons It’s not just funding that makes Washington, D.C.’s collective bargaining agreement for teachers an unlikely model for school districts that have little in common with D.C. While all communities share the goal of helping students in a way that meets their individual needs, and while most recognize that schools need better tools and conditions to accomplish this, communities use different approaches to meet this goal. And, most important, those differences must be accounted for in school policies and local laws. Several years ago, for example, in one of the earlier signs of frustration with...
