An assembler works on the production line at a Ford car factory in 1950. Labor contracts for automotive workers on assembly lines served as the model for the first teachers union contracts and continue to do so. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Legacy Laws Are Hurting Providence Public School Students
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Failing urban students is a time-honored habit in Rhode Island, first documented exhaustively in the 1993 ProBE report. The equally depressing 2019 Johns Hopkins report also focused on toxic provisions in the Providence teachers’ contract.  But unlike those two reports, the May 2024 legislative commission [...]

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