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The Massachusetts Teachers Association’s blunder-prone leaders have incentives to stick to their guns.

If the bill passes, Massachusetts would join roughly two-dozen states requiring evidence-based reading instruction, which includes explicit, sequential lessons in literacy skills such as phonics and vocabulary

"A strike isn’t something unions enter into casually. They take such actions only when negotiations truly break down," writes one reader. Another writes that unions say "it’s all about the students and their needs — except it’s not."

Since Manchin's announcement, Zach Shrewsbury has been on the road almost every day -- going door to door meeting people in their homes, talking to union halls, striking workers up north, a democratic meeting down south and committees across the state. Tonight he made a stop at Freefolk Brewery in Fayetteville. "Shows how much work

The bill would set a statewide starting base salary at $65,000 for classroom teachers and $45,000 for support staff, including paraprofessionals.