ED highlights best practices in school labor-management collaboration

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Laura Devaney, Managing Editor summarizes, "A new report from the U.S. Department of Education studies how successful districts are advancing student achievement through better labor-management collaboration."

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The U.S. Department of Education (ED) has released a report called “Local Labor-Management Relationships as a Vehicle to Advance Reform,” highlighting the work of the 12 school districts that presented at its first-ever Labor-Management Collaboration Conference in Denver earlier this year.

As presenters at the conference, the 12 districts were represented by board presidents, superintendents, and teacher leaders, who shared stories and strategies about how they have worked together to move beyond the usual labor-management rancor to develop bold, student-centered initiatives.

The report is an important contribution to a relatively new field, ED says, studying how successful districts are advancing student achievement through better labor-management collaboration. The report uses presentations made by district leaders, interviews, and document analyses to summarize what these 12 local partnerships have accomplished and, more importantly, how they have accomplished it.
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