Unconscionability And The UFT Collective Bargaining Agreement
Government Lies, Corruption and Mismanagement | Posted 2/25/2012 at 6:07 PM
"If the court as a matter of law finds the contract or any clause of the contract to have been unconscionable at the time it was made the court may refuse to enforce the contract, or it may enforce the remainder of the contract without the unconscionable clause, or it may so limit the application of any unconscionable clause as to avoid any unconscionable result. Under this section, however, a court may, in its discretion, “refuse to enforce the contract as a whole if it is permeated by the unconscionability". A generation of teachers are now lost to
Government Lies, Corruption and Mismanagement | Posted 2/25/2012 at 2:52 PM
The odds that a child will be taught by a new teacher have increased dramatically over the past two decades. In 1987-'88, the most common level of experience among the nation's 3 million K-12 public school teachers was 14 years in the classroom. By 2007-'08, students were most likely to encounter a teacher with just one or two years of experience. Experts attribute the experiential decline to numerous factors, including the widespread retirement of Baby Boomer teachers, added demands due to programs like “No Child Left Behind” and teachers leaving to pursue better-paying opportunities in other fields.
