The New York State United Teachers sued the state Education Department Jan. 26, alleging that new regulations allowing school districts to change Teacher Improvement Plans violate state law and collective-bargaining rights.
The legal challenge, filed in State Supreme Court in Albany on behalf of four Teachers and six union locals, said the SED’s changes would bring the plans, which are collectively bargained between a union and the school district, under the prerogative of management. NYSUT argued that the state Taylor Law, which governs public workers, established Teacher evaluations and disciplinary policies as subject to negotiation and that the SED infringed on existing contracts bargained between districts and local Teacher unions.
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