Clock is clicking in Rockford. Teachers will hit the bricks tomorrow morning. « Fred Klonsky

Clock is clicking in Rockford. Teachers will hit the bricks tomorrow morning. « Fred Klonsky:

Clock is clicking in Rockford. Teachers will hit the bricks tomorrow morning.

by Fred Klonsky

Rockford Education Association members picket board of ed meeting yesterday.
It would be the first teacher strike in Rockford in 30 years.
Over 95% of the members of the Rockford Education Association voted to walk if no tentative agreement is reached before Thursday morning. No students are attending Rockford schools today because of a scheduled professional development day.
The old Collective Bargaining Agreement expired last July and teachers having been working under the old