The right to strike gives unions a voice in negotiations, but does it hold the other side of the negotiating table hostage? 37 states have banned teacher strikes---but not Pennsylvania! How does a teacher’s right to strike affect students? Their education? Their families?
Tune in tonight with host Tony Iannelli as guests Simon Campbell of Stop Teacher Strikes, Inc., Steve Barron, Northampton County Controller, Jennifer Stefano of Americans for Prosperity, and Jerry Green of US Steelworkers partake in a heated discussion debating the merits and repercussions of allowing teachers to strike.
As a former school board president, I experienced firsthand how local school boards are inefficient governing bodies by design. However not the design of board members or parents but the educational industry that in the last forty years has turned it into the most powerful special interest in the country. Unfortunately the special interest is not the students but rather “entitled” school teachers and administrators.
Don’t school boards have their own association? Yes and no. They do have an association however; these associations have become entrenched educational bureaucracies that benefit from many of the teacher and administrator’s union initiatives.
Until focus is placed on how school boards exercise effective oversight, the culture of strikes and poor performance will be protected.
Posted by: Mike Stefkovich | December 03, 2012 at 08:10 PM