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Miller presses teachers for help on slots
Sun reportersSenate President Thomas V. Mike Miller has told the leaders of the state's powerful teachers union that they need to support a November referendum to legalize slot machine gambling or be prepared for severe cuts in education funding. The board of the...Tags: Interior Policy, Referenda, Montgomery County (Maryland), Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), Bowie
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Pay raise suggested for city's teachers
Sun StaffWeighing in on a yearlong dispute over wages for Baltimore public school teachers and aides, a mediation panel recommended yesterday that the city school board grant 3 percent pay raises to more than 8,000 employees. In a split decision, the three-member...Tags: Examinations, Teaching and Learning, Unions, Budgets and Budgeting, Health and Safety at School
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David Nitkin on state politics issues
Sun coverage Scott Conwell, Crofton: Just about every article written about Gov. [Robert L.] Ehrlich [Jr.] discusses his political motivation behind his actions. Yet The Sun frequently does not print the political motivations of others who oppose him. For...Tags: African Americans, Court Preliminary, Jack Abramoff, Local Elections, Democratic Party
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School board, teachers union agree to raises
Sun StaffThe Baltimore school board and teachers union reached a labor agreement yesterday that would give teachers and paraprofessionals their first pay raises in three years. The two-year contract, which must be formally ratified by members of the Baltimore...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Unions, Budgets and Budgeting, Health and Safety at School, Finance
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Teachers want cash problems addressed
Sun StaffBaltimore teachers risked everything Friday - their jobs and their students' education - when they voted to reject a pay cut and furloughs, but some say they did it to heighten the sense of emergency and to force elected and school leaders to confront...Tags: Regional Authority, Unions, American Federation of Teachers, Health and Safety at School, Employees
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'I could see fury in their eyes' at vote
Sun StaffThe Baltimore Teachers Union, long a bit player in city school affairs, suddenly is in a lead role, thrust there by thousands of members who delivered a message yesterday: We're fed up. Nearly three-quarters of the BTU's member teachers voted at the...Tags: Family, Elementary Schools, Maryland, Schools, Elections
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Larson reassures teachers union that he supports its work
Sun StaffSALISBURY - Seeking to assuage concerns about his Republican roots, retired Adm. Charles R. Larson reassured one of the Democratic Party's staunchest support groups yesterday that he strongly backs the work of Maryland's teachers union. Larson - who...Tags: Company Privatization, Defense, Local Elections, Armed Forces, Unions
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City teachers reject pay cut
Sun StaffThousands of angry Baltimore schoolteachers and aides voted overwhelmingly to reject a 3.5 percent cut in salaries yesterday - a decision that could trigger even deeper pay cuts across the city school system or possible mass layoffs to ease a financial...Tags: Unions, Referenda, Martin O'Malley, Labor Legislation, Teaching and Learning
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Schools' bailout tests role of labor
Sun StaffWatching thousands of teachers rally outside his window last month demanding tax dollars for schools, Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. grew increasingly agitated. Finally, Ehrlich summoned a few reporters inside the governor's mansion and vented. "The Maryland...Tags: Defense, Robert R Neall, Local Elections, Unions, Republican Party
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Teachers union to vote on options
Sun StaffSome Baltimore teachers hope to rally their colleagues to vote against any of the cost-saving options that the city school system has proposed to pay down a multimillion-dollar deficit - a move that could force system officials to lay off more than a...Tags: Unions, Employees, Teaching and Learning, Lawyers, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.
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Schools chief preparing layoff plan if teachers reject pay cut, furlough
Sun StaffConcerned that Baltimore teachers may reject a proposal to take a pay cut to avert layoffs, city schools chief Bonnie S. Copeland said yesterday she will begin preparing a plan to eliminate as many as 1,200 jobs to help pay down a $58 million cumulative...Tags: Breach of Contract, Bankruptcy, Teaching and Learning, Unions, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Schools deal may hinge on state funding
Sun StaffWithout an advance of state funds to cover the Baltimore public schools' cash flow problem - one so great that it threatens to bankrupt the system - a deal brokered over the weekend to ease the system's $58 million deficit will not happen, sources close...Tags: Regional Authority, Robert R Neall, Wages and Pensions, Unions, Analysts' Comments
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