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Loyalsock board offers more than union asks

December 9th, 2009 at 12:32 pm » Comments (0)

Here's a story you don't see very often: a school board salary offer of a starting salary that's larger than what its union is asking. That's the story ...more »

Harley Davidson contract and school job rules

December 5th, 2009 at 5:28 pm » Comments (0)

A Wall Street Journal article describes a new contract between Harley Davidson and it employees' union. Harley's management was threatening to move its motorcycle manufacturing operations from its home ...more »

Wilkes Barre report better than usual — by a just a little

December 3rd, 2009 at 6:46 pm » Comments (0)

A negotiations story in Citizensvoice.com at the Wilkes-Barre Area Career and Technology Center has something all too rare: a link to the proposals from both the board and the ...more »

“Pride and Promise” — Paul Fisher’s new blog

December 1st, 2009 at 4:47 pm » Comments (1)

Paul Fisher, a member of the Northwestern Lehigh (Lehigh County) school board, has launched a blog entitled Pride and Promise. His opening post is a clear, calm summary of ...more »

Whitehall-Coplay Area SD and union reach agreement

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 »

Transparency and books by Myron Lieberman

November 29th, 2009 at 2:44 pm » Comments (0)

Jim Butt, whose new blog I mentioned last week, asks (in a recent comment) about incentives for more transparency on the part of school boards. I can think of ...more »

Two cheers for North Penn SD website

November 28th, 2009 at 1:42 pm » Comments (0)

The North Penn SD (Montgomery County) deserves kudos for a web page posting the "final best" offers of the board and teachers union. (The same page has links to ...more »

A blog by a new school board member

November 27th, 2009 at 3:59 pm » Comments (0)

Jim Butt, a new member of the Cheltenham Township SD (Montgomery County) board, has started a blog called -- matter-of-factly enough -- Jim Butt's Blog. His focus so far ...more »

East Penn SD leaps to top of new honor roll

November 23rd, 2009 at 3:02 pm » Comments (1)

Thanks to Paul Fisher for this link to an outstanding example of school district transparency: the East Penn School District's website. Paul was a regular contributor here before ...more »

South Allegheny SD approves contract

November 20th, 2009 at 3:04 pm » Comments (0)

Another long-running negotiation came to an end this week with the approval of a contract between the South Allegheny SD (Allegheny County) board and the teachers union. From the ...more »
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