State should take over labor negotiations to speed school openings, ex-LBUSD superintendent says • Long Beach Post News
- ADVERTISEMENT - In an article published Thursday on the education news site EdSource, ex-superintendent Carl Cohn argued that Gov. Gavin Newsom should bargain directly with statewide unions for teachers and classified staff, simplifying a tangled process of reopenings across the state that currently involves individual districts negotiating with their employees unions. That would mean temporarily suspending local collective bargaining, a radical step, but one that’s needed, Cohn argued. “Schools aren’t going to reopen anytime soon across the state if the details and agreements on in-p...