Take Action on Ed Reform

Contact your Legislator on Education Reform

The Mass Senate voted 28-11, during the formal session on November 17th, in favor of its version of an Ed Reform Bill. This bill strips away many important collective bargaining protections from union members:

• A takeover of so-called underperforming schools, with school superintendents having the power to dismiss for good cause any employee who is unsuccessful in applying to remain in the school. The superintendent would also have the right to reopen the contract in each of these take-over schools and to eliminate all but minimal protections for employees.
• An unlimited expansion of in-district Horace Mann charter schools, whose staff do NOT have a right to bargain collectively. The Horace Mann charters, under this legislation, would operate like current state-sanctioned charter schools, but without the ability to collectively bargain.

Union-busting will not improve our schools and will not help Massachusetts qualify for the US Dept of Education's "Race to the Top" grants.

Take Action Now and send an email to your Representative to urge them to vote against the Senate's anti-worker language by clcking here.

If you've already sent an email, please follow up with a phone call. This is an important issue that will be decided within the next few weeks and your Representative needs to know that you feel strongly about this and will hold them accountable: