June 30, 2011
Providence Schools at the Center of the End of the Legislative Session?
At 10:22 this morning, notice was posted of a bill (S1062) to be heard by the House Finance Committee at noon today which would grant "the chief executive officer of any municipality having an appointed school committee" most of the same contract-negotiating powers that are held by elected school committees.
Some pure speculation on my part: In return or going along with the I-195 bill, could the powers-that-be in the Providence Mayor's office (and their allies in the RI House) be asking for much more direct power over the Providence school system?
And some speculation-squared: Would those same powers-that-be in the Providence Mayor's office be happy getting what they asked for, only to immediately lose it to a binding arbitrator?
"Would those same powers-that-be in the Providence Mayor's office be happy getting what they asked for, only to immediately lose it to a binding arbitrator?"
I was wondering this very thing while reading your post... Why on earth would the mayor want the negotiation authority when it will be limited with the binding arbitration?
There's got to be something else going on here.
Posted by: stuckhereinri at June 30, 2011 2:21 PMAlan covered this over on RIF a couple weeks ago...
www.rifuture.org/school-board-member-resigns-in-providence.html
From the Projo article:
Must be about that.
Posted by: Russ at June 30, 2011 4:09 PMWell, in a contest between Mayor Taveras and an ivory-tower Deconstructivist egghead from Brown, I'd bet on the Mayor.
Posted by: BobN at June 30, 2011 4:16 PMYeah, no one should listen to those Brown grads, eh, Bob?
Posted by: Russ at June 30, 2011 4:24 PMRuss,
Posted by: Max Diesel at June 30, 2011 11:34 PMIf Chafee's is Brown's shining example then Bob's got a pretty good point. Shoeing horses to politics. Great resume.
Travis Rowley, Bobby Jindal, Stephen Beale, Andrew Kurtzman, all Brown alumni.
Posted by: Patrick at July 1, 2011 11:20 AMI don't have anything against Brown alums or eggheads (proud geek here). Just poking fun at Bob, who if I'm not mistaken knows a bit about deconstructivist eggheads.
Posted by: Russ at July 1, 2011 3:47 PM