Transparency for Teacher Contracts
Smart political minorities not only point out where the majority is wrong--as this liberal monopoly often is--they also propose good policies of their own.
Senator Janet Greenip (R -33) has done so. Yesterday she introduced the Public School Collective Bargaining Sunshine Act (SB 230). SB 230 would require county boards of education to make their collective bargaining contracts publicly available within 10 days of the agreement.
Currently citizens wishing to review those contracts must file a FOIA request to obtain them. As I can personally attest, FOIA requests are not an easy process, especially when public officials have something to hide.
Teacher unions, whose members incessantly claim to be the saviors of public school students, should have no qualms about public scrutiny of their contracts. After all they are public employees.
Transparency in government is a notion that is paid a lot of lip service, but rarely any action. This bill would offer taxpayers a clearer view an often opaque process.
crossposted on The Main Adversary
2 comments:
This makes no sense. Our contract was posted on the union website before it was even voted on for all of us to see. The site is not password protected so all the public can read it as well.
Miller Smith
PGCEA Member
That's not the case in most of the state, and the average person doesn't know what the county union website, even though it's our tax dollars that are being spent.
You certainly cannot find the agreements on any of the county websites in the state.
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