Competing against ourselves

A funny thought occured to me which I wanted to share. Funny, strange, not funny, ha-ha.

The last couple of weeks, I've had several articles on the Acton teacher contract renewals. I started off with a description of the new contract. See...

Then I went into the process violation by the School Committee. The School Commitee promised to allow for public input prior to approving the new three-year teacher's agreement and reneged. See...

Then I gave just one example of missing information that could have been important to know prior to a vote on a new agreement. My guess is that several School Committee members were unaware that this information was missing, but they evidently didn't care since not one objected to a delay in the vote. See...

There are probably more examples that could be shown, but what's the point--the School Committee approved the contract so nothing can be done for three years.

The last article in this series was about how the state has hurt the cities and towns by making it impossible to negotiate new union contracts for local taxpayers' benefit. See...

This article will show another example of the state's interference in the "free market" of hiring teachers which has increased local taxpayers' costs....

Article continues on www.ActonForum.com at:

http://www.actonforum.com/blogs/allenn/competing-against-ourselves