Last month, Ms. Rhee said she could no longer wait for a union response to her proposal, first outlined last summer, and announced an effort to identify and fire ineffective teachers, including those with tenure. The union is mobilizing to protect members, and the nation’s capital is bracing for what could be a wrenching labor struggle.
If you haven’t seen this, its worth a look
PRESS RELEASE
NOVEMBER 11, 2008
CONTACT: ANTHONY CARCEIRI
THE EAST PROVIDENCE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT AND THE EAST PROVIDENCE TEACHERS UNION, NEARI MET ON SATURDAY NOVEMBER 8TH BEFORE A PANEL OF THREE ARBITRATORS – IN THE FIRST OF FIVE SCHEDULED INTEREST ARBITRATION HEARINGS.
DUE TO FAILED MEDIATION TO REACH A NEW AGREEMENT ON THE TEACHERS CONTRACT THAT EXPIRED OCTOBER 31ST, THE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT AND THE
THE SUPERINTENDENT AND HUMAN RESOURCE DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT AND THE CITY MANAGER FOR
The House Financial Services Committee is holding a hearing on the bail-out, today at 10:00. Please watch if you can.
The Pacific Research Institute’s US Economic Freedom Index, 2008 Report came in the mail today. Not surprisingly, RI ranked 49th, just ahead of NY.
See the full report HERE.
In case you missed it,
http://www.foxnews.com/video-search/m/21332361/jack_welch_s_take.htm?pageid=23177
In Monday’s Providence Journal there was a report that the East Providence School Committee wanted to hold the contract negotiations in public sessions (yippy!). Predictably, the NEA refused. The article is here.
After reading that I sent an email to every school committee member I could find an email for (which is about all of them) and asked them if they support the move. Within an hour 8 responded positively so I wrote a press release co-signed by them.
The ProJo will be reporting on this PR in the morning’s paper - or see it here early.
PS. The RI Association of Scholars issued a survey to their members today.
PSS. Someone from that original email reported my email address to Cox as a spammer - apprently some school committee members will go to great lengths to keep the public away.
The Ocean State Policy Research Institute has been working with a small group of economists and policymakers to use market-based forces as policies to supplant the current bail-out philosophy. The first proposal to make it to print is a debt for equity workout standard based on existing bankruptcy practice that is now on OSPRI’s website:
There is an interesting rumble in East Providence as they have tried to make the contact negotiations open to the public - and the teachers union has refused. There is more information over at the Chariho School blog.
RI comes in dead (pun intended) last in the country on unemployment- 8.8%.
Americans for Tax Reform have identified the OSPRI Transparency Train as the Featured Web site at Fiscal Accountability (dot) com. Keep your eye on your local paper too - more news coming.
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