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Participants underscored the importance of expanding the role of the community and other stakeholders in the collective bargaining process. Most suggested that collaborating with these stakeholders as equal partners would help involve families and communities more deeply in students' learning.
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Why should a wider range of stakeholders be involved in collective bargaining, and how could that happen?
Randi Weingarten
President, United Federation of Teachers, New York City
Schools can't be viewed as the only people who have to take responsibility for the healthy development of young people.
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Randi Weingarten
President, United Federation of Teachers, New York City
New York, in 2000, created a four-step career ladder because community activists helped the union to get it accepted.
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Warren Simmons
Executive Director,
Annenberg Institute for School Reform
A fundamental first step in convincing the community that labor and management have students' interests at heart is transparency.
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Randi Weingarten
President, United Federation of Teachers, New York City
We need a consensual set of goals that are student centered, student focused, and defined by the public.
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Brad Jupp
Senior Adademic Policy Advisor,
Denver Public Schools
The superintendent believes that the purpose of the school system is to give citizens the schools they want, by any means necessary.
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Adam Urbanski
President, Rochester (NY) Teachers Association
Director, Teacher Union Reform Network
Education reform has to be coupled with housing reform, juvenile justice reform, etc. Schools alone cannot fix the lot of children, and you can't decontextualize education for the rest of children's lives.
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Peter McWalters
Commissioner,
Rhode Island Department of Elementary and
Secondary Education
The things that students deal with outside of school count.
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