Philadelphia Inquirer: Can We Avert Teacher Strikes?
School’s out in Downingtown, the teachers are on strike, and even if it’s all resolved by the time this paper lands on your lawn, students’ education has been disrupted.
More than 30 other states have laws that ban teacher strikes and set up a variety of ways to resolve contract disputes. Pennsylvania doesn’t, but there are two bills in the legislature that could change that.
One, sponsored by State Rep. Todd Rock (R., Fayette) and co-sponsored by State Rep. Curt Schroder (R., Chester), who represents the Downingtown area, would ban strikes, fine teachers who do strike two days’ pay for each strike day, and call for nonbinding arbitration and public disclosure by both sides of their contract positions, among other steps.
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