Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Seats at the Table | AMPS

Seats at the Table | AMPS:


Seats at the Table

David Hockney, Walking Past Two Chairs 1984-6
The big item at the Madison Metropolitan School District Board of Education meeting/retreat/workshop last night was the process for replacing the collective bargaining agreement with an employee hand book (thanks Scott Walker).  Being a retreat/workshop, nothing was decided.  In my view, at this point the most important issues are who will have seats at the table for the drafting of the handbook and what roles will the Board of Education play.
Matt Defour has a sti on this portion of the meeting and Karen Vieth has a great write-up, so I’m mostly just going to offer comment, observations and opinions.
As of now, the default process, as put in place by departed Superintendent Dan Nerad (apparently without