• Athletics
  • Big Ed
  • Ed Tech
  • Educators
  • Elections
  • Federal Policy
  • Parents
  • Students
  • The Testing Industry

K-12 News Network's The Wire

K-12 News Network: People-Powered Public Education News

  • Budgets
  • Charter Schools
  • Federal Policy
  • School Districts
  • State Education Law
  • School Boards
You are here: Home / Educators / Teachers' Unions Step Up in New Jersey With Policy Proposals

Teachers' Unions Step Up in New Jersey With Policy Proposals

December 10, 2010 by K12NN Site Admin

Facebooktwitterredditlinkedinmail

Rather than cede education reform to politicians who portray unions as obstacles to good schooling, teacher’s unions offer their own solutions to closing the student achievement gap.

In New Jersey, Governor Christie claimed the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) prioritized job security above good teaching.

The NJEA’s response? Changes in the tenure process to winnow badly performing teachers from the rest by using “nationally certified arbitrators” instead of administrative law judges to rule on firings, stepped-up efforts to fund innovative programs initiated by teachers, a push for laws that expand oversight/accountability of public charters, and the launch of union-sponsored charters (Full summary here (pdf).)

In addition, the union proposes that New Jersey support expanded preschool and all-day kindergarten. Particularly savvy is the link the NJEA will draw between excellent schools and property values, and the role of teachers’ unions in maintaining high quality schools.

Meanwhile, UTLA, the teacher’s union for LAUSD professionals, has embraced teacher-led reform since long before Mayor Villaraigosa’s recent condemnation of unions as obstructionist and upholding the status-quo.

Facebooktwitterlinkedinrssyoutube

Filed Under: Educators, Fixes, Innovations Tagged With: Unions

About K12NN Site Admin

I'm Cynthia Liu, Owner/Founder of K12 News Network. I'm the proud product of public schools through post-grad, the mom of a child in public schools, and the daughter of two teachers. Connect with me professionally on LinkedIn.

Sign up for our newsletter

* indicates required
Email Format

Buy a hybrid Facebook+ website today!

Federal Policy

Quick Education Voter’s Guide to the California CD34 Race, April 4, 2017

There are twenty-three candidates running to fill former Congressman Xavier Bacerra’s seat in Congressional District 34 in Southern California. (Bacerra is currently the state’s Attorney General, replacing Kamala Harris, who, after November 8, 2016, became our US Senator.) Election Day is Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 7:00 am to 8:00 pm. You can find your polling […]

Betsy DeVos, #NOTMYSDOE

Take the pledge to #resist and fight for public schools as a public good TODAY. DeVos had to have the assistance of Vice President Mike Pence’s unprecedented tie-breaking vote in order to win her confirmation. Two GOP Senators voted against, all Democratic Senators voted against. Yet all the other GOP Senators who received campaign donations […]

Next #DemDebate MUST Include K-12 Education Policy

The next #DemDebate is scheduled for the important primary state of Iowa on November 14, 2015. It’ll be broadcast by CBS in partnership with the Des Moines Register. Professor Julian Vasquez Heilig is leading the call for the families of 50 million students K-12 across the nation and the communities they live in to have […]

More Posts from this Category

K12NN on Blog Talk Radio

Online Politics Progressive Radio at Blog Talk Radio with MOMocrats on BlogTalkRadio

Categories

December 2010
S M T W T F S
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031  
« Sep   Jan »

Copyright © 2022 · The Wire Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in