East Providence
This is being treated as a secondary matter, but in the long range it might be the more significant thread coming loose in East Providence: The state Labor Relations Board has decided to hold a formal hearing on a complaint by the city teachers union that the School Committee violated Rhode Island labor law by…
An East Providence school committee member in attendance at the Ed Achorn talk gave me a copy of a flier that’s going to homes across the town: Inside are a few union talking points presented in a “true or false” format, my favorite of which is the following (emphasis in original): It’s the teachers’ fault…
The East Providence School Committee just won the day in court — at least to the extent that the judge denied the union’s request for an injunction against the imposition of the School Committee’s remuneration change. Decision: PDF School Committee Press Release: PDF
When East Providence taxpayer Tom Riley spoke during the Public Comment segment of Tuesday’s School Committee meeting, members of the NEA and other unions from around the state boo’ed and shouted him down. (It should be noted that Mr. Riley would, nevertheless, have carried on with his remarks but the School Committee determined that the…
The East Providence Taxpayer Association is getting a lot of well deserved press, lately. The dispute in their city is big news, and the EPTA is keeping a consistent and measured message out there. From today’s Providence Journal: Standing in the cold outside East Providence High School yesterday, a lone spokesman for the East Providence…
Jim Hummel, filling in for Dan Yorke, has had three unionists on the program since 3:00, and as I’ve pulled up flooring and cleaned my jobsite, I’ve been itching to make three points: 1. Regarding the teachers’/union’s behavior at the latest School Committee meeting, NEA lawyer John Liedecker pointed out that the police had said,…
Andrew’s call in to the Matt Allen show, last night, turned into a longer form interview about the East Providence School Committee meeting. Stream by clicking here, or download it. To the conversation about Anthony Carcieri’s microphone volume (or lack thereof), I’d add my impression that Carcieri fully anticipated a disruptive atmosphere and was focused…
East Providence is looking at budget deficits of over $4m per year for 2008 and 2009 and some scary tax increases if spending on the largest portion of their budget – personnel costs – is not brought into line. This fact seems inexplicably missing from too many statements by the teachers union. These include but…
Anchor Rising has received the following: The East Providence School Committee is providing 2 examples of the financial avalanche facing our entire community. Attached is legal action by the Northern RI Collaborative seeking past due payment of $563,214.30 for tuition payments for our special-needs students. It is irrational that the teachers’ union chooses to ignore…
Let’s recap the events that helped bring last night’s East Providence school committee meeting to an abrupt end. The third speaker of the public comment period was East Providence teacher Mary Texeria. As Justin alluded to in the previous post, Ms. Texeria made a tough but fair statement saying that she would be willing to…