School board member asks for cut in pay for Spring-Ford principals

School board member asks for cut in pay for Spring-Ford principals
Spring-Ford Area School District principals have agreed to a pay freeze, but some school board members believe administrators should go one step further and take a pay cut.
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Jean-Claude Brizard blames past union trouble on ‘personality’ clash
Chicago’s next Schools CEO said Tuesday he may have had a “personality’’ conflict with the head of the Rochester teachers union but his relationship with rank-and-file teachers in New York is “actually quite good” — despite a 95-percent no-confidence vote.As he prepared to leave his Rochester superintendent’s post to take over the reins of the Chicago Public Schools, Jean-Claude Brizard defended …
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Painters’ deal could ease construction feud
Daniel Massey – A union representing 4,000 painters in the New York area reached a four-year contract agreement late last week with an industry association that could set a precedent for some 30 other building trades contracts set to expire by the end of June. The deal, between DC9 International Union of Painters and Allied Trades and the Association of Master Painters and Decorators of New York …
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