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Gov. Dayton won't sign teacher layoff bill

...teachers should be addressed before the layoff point. Democrats also have said that the bill was premature because a statewide teacher evaluation system is still in development. Petersen said the new system would have been sharper if used hand-in-hand...

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Legislators aim to unmask severance packages

...suspended teachers if they demand a hearing before dismissal. Jan Alswager, a lobbyist for Education Minnesota, the statewide teachers' union, testified against the felony suspension bill, saying it risked presuming a teacher's guilt rather than...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-03-06/legislators-aim-unmask-severance-pac
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Audit: Teacher salaries lag behind inflation in Minnesota

...salaries are taking money away from kids,'' said Rep. Matt Entenza, DFL-St. Paul. The report said average statewide teacher salaries decreased 4 percent between 1989 and 1999 after inflation. ''I'm flabbergasted,'' said Rep. Ken...

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Hawaii school year threatens to end in academic disaster

...graduation, Hawaii's 220,000 public school and college students are watching their school year fall apart in bitter statewide teacher strikes. Photos Negotiations to settle the separate walkouts by public schoolteachers and University of Hawaii professors...

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Education
International Falls teachers walk picket line

...also said the union would not accept binding arbitration. According to the Minnesota School Boards Association, statewide teacher salary and benefit increases have averaged 4.79 percent for 2001-2002 and 4.83 percent for 2002-2003. District...

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Teachers' union suing C-I school district, superintendent Lawrie

...Education Minnesota announced Wednesday the statewide teachers' union is suing the Crosby-Ironton School District...opened in Crow Wing County District Court. The statewide teachers' union said the district and its superintendent...

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1. CROSBY-IRONTON TEACHERS' STRIKE

...CRES fourth-graders returned to school, taught by replacement workers. On March 16, Education Minnesota, the statewide teachers' union, announced it was suing the school district and Superintendent Linda Lawrie, in part for violating state...

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Bruinicks weighs in on Garfield obesity program

...in a proposed partnership between the U and the Brainerd School District that would allow the district to provide statewide teacher training in mostly kindergarten through second-grade literacy. Brainerd Superintendent Steve Razidlo told Bruinicks...

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Other opinion: Education

...problem, however, is that to qualify for funding, everyone needs to be on the same page - and our governor and the statewide teachers union aren't even in the same book when it comes to education reform. In order to meet a June 1 reapplication...

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Opinion
Union leader: Economy hurts teachers, too

...president of Education Minnesota, met with educational assistants. Tom Dooher, president of Education Minnesota, the statewide teachers' union, spoke Thursday at an educational assistants union meeting held after school at Forestview Middle School...

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