November 30th, 2009 at 9:20 am » Comments (0)

It didn't take the Whitehall-Coplay School Board (Lehigh County) and the teachers union very long to reach a consensus after receiving the fact finder's report on November 18, 2009. On Tuesday, ...more »

April 17th, 2009 at 4:02 pm » Comments (0)

One of the state's longer-running contract negotiations will go on still longer. On April 15 the Northwest Area SD (Luzerne County) board rejected a union settlement offer by a ...more »

April 6th, 2009 at 11:35 am » Comments (0)

The headline reads "Student Groups Meet to Rally Behind Unions," but the main text has a different emphasis. “We just want transparency,” said Wes Weaver, a junior photography and urban studies ...more »

February 26th, 2009 at 11:00 pm » Comments (0)

Last week I described an assertion by a local teacher union, the South Butler Education Association, that seniority-based pay raises shouldn't be included when computing the percentage size of pay ...more »

January 12th, 2009 at 2:50 pm » Comments (0)

The website of the University of Virginia has a wonderful digital archive of materials by and about Thomas Jefferson. It’s a fine source of quotations from Jefferson's writings, especially on ...more »