Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Tough economic times mean some new pain for both teachers and Tredyffrin/Easttown School District taxpayers.
Five months ago parents, students and teachers union members packed the house as the Tredyffrin Easttown School Board debated demoting the most-educated teachers to save money on a new teacher contract. It was a long, heated and contentious night when the strains of months of contract talks spilled out of the bargaining sessions into the public sessions. Monday night the mood was completely different as members of the school board and the Tredyffrin Easttown Education Association (TEEA) union shook hands, smiled and posed together for photos to mark a contract settlement on a new two year deal. Neither side got exactly what they wanted. For starters, it's a two year pact, not the three year contract the district had long said it wanted. …
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Tredyffrin-Easttown School Board President: "we need two austere years to try to right our financial ship."
In a tense public meeting that included some brief fireworks, the Tredyffrin-Easttown School Board voted for a second time Monday night to reject a state fact finder's report that would have settled the district's teacher contract if approved. Lamenting that the district is facing the same tough economic times that teachers and taxpayers are grappling with, T/E School Board President Karen Cruikshank and six other board members voted to reject state-appointed Fact Finder Timothy J. Brown's proposal for a two year contract. Board member Anne Crowley, one of two board members who voted to accept the report when the board voted on the report back on August 9, abstained from voting yes or no as a "protest" vote. The board's vote sends the …
Friday, August 17, 2012
The state fact finder hired to look at both sides in the the Tredyffrin-Easttown School District teacher contract negotiations tells T/E taxpayers that they're wealthy and should pay up.
The state fact finder hired to make a recommendation for a T/E School District teachers contract says the taxpayers in TE are wealthy and the district should put up more money to support some of what the teachers are asking seeking. The fact finder is not a mediator per se, but serves a similar function by trying to find common ground between two sides in a labor contract negotiation. Unlike a mediator the fact finder comes up with a settlement without acting as a go-between for talks. The fact finder in this case is Timothy Brown. In his report, Brown makes comments about the T/E District being among the wealthiest in the state. At several points in the report Brown recommends that the T/E School District find the money for several areas…
Emily
9:33 pm on Tuesday, August 21, 2012
I disagree with Bob W's comment. The schools are not good just because of the teachers. The schools are good because of the parents, the kids themselves, and the teachers/administration. Parents and the community set high expectations for their children, make sure that they do their school work and support their learning at home. more ›