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Department of Education hope Denver summit breaks new ground
- 02-15-2011
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Huffington Post
A first-of-its-kind summit among teachers and their bosses – school board members and administrators – kicks off Tuesday in what the Obama administration is touting as a watershed moment in collaboration for school improvement. More than 150 school districts from 40 states are sending administrators and union leaders to a U.S. Department of Education summit billed as the nation's first large effort to have school labor and management talk about student achievement, rather than the nuts and bolts of labor contracts. It's a summit organizers are hailing as a fresh start to kick off education overhaul efforts looming in Washington, including delicate negotiations over how teachers should be evaluated. But already cracks are showing in the let's work together effort. (more...)
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