Lawmakers mull ways to move teachers’ contract talks away from local boards
It’s fairly predictable: Local teachers strike, and the talk in Montpelier turns to the need for a statewide teachers’ contract. Vermont has flirted with the idea for more than a decade, but so far it hasn’t blossomed into a full-on romance.
In the past five months, however, Vermont has seen two local teachers’ unions strike when talks broke down with their respective school boards. The first came in May, when a group of teachers in the Northeast Kingdom went on strike for four days. Then, on Oct. 11, roughly 160 teachers in Colchester hit the picket line.
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