TAG | Washington Post
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Post: “Cash on the barrel”
Comments off · Posted by admin in Labor Contracts, MCEA, Public Schools
The Post’s editorial board wants to know whose interests the Council really serves
In effect, local officeholders are so beholden to the union that they have forfeited their obligation to exercise independent oversight over contract negotiations. One result is that the average salary for a Montgomery County teacher, $76,483, is the highest among suburban school systems in the Washington area…But what confidence can the public have that officeholders in Montgomery are carefully weighing competing interests when most of them are held hostage to the overbearing influence of a single union?
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Post: “In Montgomery County, scare tactics by teachers union are the norm”
Comments off · Posted by admin in Public Schools
From the Washington Post’s editorial board:
Unsurprisingly, the MCEA, backed by its anointed candidates on the Montgomery County Council, the county school board and the local delegation to the state legislature, has been able to squeeze enormous concessions from the school system in past contract negotiations. Over the past three years, the salary of a typical teacher with 10 years of experience has risen by 23 percent.
