by TN School Choice | May 21, 2011 | Blog
Via the Times Free Press (available to read in full Here) Senate Republicans on Friday evening voted 19-12 to repeal teachers’ unions collective bargaining powers, replacing them with a plan proponents call “collaborative conferencing.” Court-enforceable memoranda of...
by TN School Choice | Mar 17, 2011 | Blog
The House Education Subcommittee approved a compromise on the bill that originally halted teacher collective bargaining with an amendment stripping out the bill’s ban on bargaining and would: Allow negotiations to continue between local school boards and teacher...
by TN School Choice | Feb 20, 2011 | Blog, tn legislation
It is the ambitious education reform agenda of Tennessee’s 107th General Assembly that is causing the [Tennessee Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union] union’s angst. For the first time in state history, Republicans control the state House...