Teachers Union Calls for Renewed Contract Negotiations – SchoolBook

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SchoolBook: Teachers Union Calls for Renewed Contract Negotiations

by By ANNA M. PHILLIPS

A day after Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said he would circumvent the teachers union to create his own evaluation process, the union is trying to force the city back to the negotiation table.

On Friday, United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew announced that he has asked New York State’s labor board to declare an impasse in the negotiations between the city and union over a new teacher evaluation and appoint a mediator. The city and the United

SchoolBook: Some Teachers Skeptical of Merit Pay

by By PATRICIA WILLENS

Teachers call in to WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show in response to the mayor's State of the City address. Many of them, says the host, told WNYC that the idea of merit pay was "good in theory, wouldn't work in practice.''