School Board Challenges Teachers to Go Public with Contract Offers
Union takes "vote of no confidence" in school leaders
The Strongsville School Board offered to make public its contract offer to teachers in a show of "transparency," hours after the teachers' union filed a 10-day strike notice. School Board President David Frazee said both sides should post their offers on the school district's website to let the public see what teachers are seeking and what the board is offering. "We're willing to do it," Frazee told a room full of teachers at a board meeting Thursday night. "But it sounds like the teachers aren't." The challenge followed an hour of statements and questions from educators and parents, many lamenting that substitutes will be unable to offer quality education to students if teachers stop working March 4. Some asked whether the district …
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Mark in Strongsville
6:55 pm on Sunday, February 24, 2013
Tracy - you are right. I don't know what either proposal is. But I think negotiations would be best served without lawyers trying to get their cut. Let the board and teacher reps WORK something out and then give it to the lawyers to make sure it conforms to all of the legal mumbo-jumbo. Tom - I understand re: the levy dollars. As I recall some thirty-odd years ago the supreme court deemed how … more ›