Quick Take: Lusher Teachers Reject Union
A divided board eventually voted against voluntarily recognition at a meeting on April 26th, setting up the NLRB vote on Tuesday.
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Peter Cook
A divided board eventually voted against voluntarily recognition at a meeting on April 26th, setting up the NLRB vote on Tuesday.
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Peter Cook
Similarly, the focus is increasingly not about local teacher voices. This is because nationally-affiliated unionization often sacrifices the individual voices of nearly all teachers by providing the artifice of …
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Peter Cook
“Fourth- and fifth-grade teacher Daniel Perez did sign, but only after he was urged to do so at least three times, he said. He said organizers told him …
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Peter Cook
They should be angry. Not only have Lusher officials misled parents on this issue, but they’re now going to spend money – resources that could otherwise be spent on the …
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Peter Cook
Furthermore, this past year, Lusher ended up with a net surplus of $1,429,471.
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Peter Cook
At their initial hearings before NLRB regional director Kathleen McKinney, IHSNO and Lusher argued that NLRB lacks jurisdiction to intervene because they are by law public schools, and therefore, their …
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Peter Cook
Board members included and approved this language with the full knowledge that Riedlinger and her fellow administrators opposed the union. Furthermore, while administrators have sent letters to teachers urging them …
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Peter Cook
Former Louisiana State Superintendent of Education Paul Pastorek has filed a petition in federal court to intervene in the lawsuit brought by Lusher and Lake Forest charter schools against the Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB) over looming changes to the district’s school funding formula. Pastorek, who is a lawyer by trade, filed the intervention on […] More
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Peter Cook
Explicitly phases-in the funding change over several years Ensures that no school will see their budget cut by more than 2% a year Does not account for increases in …
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Peter Cook
While it may be a clever strategy from Lusher’s standpoint, it only adds confusion to the conversation about how we’re going to fund the city’s schools. Furthermore …