In an effort to identify effective collaborative approaches to education innovation and set the stage for improved labor-management relations in the Commonwealth, Professors Barry Bluestone (Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy—Northeastern University) and Tom Kochan (Sloan School—MIT) are conducting a survey on labor-management relations in local school districts.
The data from the survey will be used to host a working meeting later this year of all the key education stakeholders—school committee members, superintendents, union leaders and state education officials—to begin to chart concrete strategies for using collective bargaining and constructive labor management relation to advance education innovation and student achievement. All members are encouraged to respond to the brief survey, which can be accessed at http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22CHBLVFYCS.
