Big Shifts at the Teachers Union: A Reader’s Guide
Posted: Thursday, April 5, 2012 5:02 pm |Updated: 6:47 pm, Thu Apr 5, 2012.
It’s been a hectic couple of months over at the San Diego Education Association, the union that represents some 7,000 San Diego Unified teachers.
The union is right in the thick of the battle over the district’s troubled finances. With the district estimating that it faces an $80 million to $120 million deficit next year, school leaders are pleading with the SDEA to give up future pay raises, continue taking five unpaid days off and accept cuts to their benefits package.
So far, those pleas have been ignored. But there have been two big changes recently in the union’s leadership, and there are some early signs that the union may start to move away from what has been an increasingly hard-line, isolated philosophy in the last few years.
A lot has happened, quickly, so let’s take a look at the key issues:
Why the Union’s Role Is So Important
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