T/E Teachers Union Calls for "Transparency"

The Tredyffrin-Easttown Education Association is calling on the T/E School Board to "provide full transparency" on the negotiation process. The TEEA has complained both privately and at public meetings that no school board members are on the district's negotiation team and that the school district has not kept the public fully informed.

In a posting on the union's website, the union says "recent developments have strengthened our belief in a need for transparency with the public; these include the Board’s continued consideration of the demotion of our best teachers as a viable cost-reduction strategy, the Board’s recent public release of outdated and incomplete facts about negotiations and the violation of our mutually-agreed contract regarding grievance procedures."

School Board President Karen Cruickshank addressed the union's concern in a marathon public comment session during the board's April meeting, telling the teachers that the board is fully informed on every negotiating session and development by the professional negotiator the board hired.

The school district's most recent website posting on the negotations in the "Success and Sustainability" section of TESD.org is date March 5, 2012. You can read it by clicking on this link.

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