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Meet newly appointed Secretary of Education Paul Reville	Now read "The rest of the story" The tragic reasons why a great and wonderful teacher decided he had to leave Lawrence! or "The Blaming Organization versus The Learning Organization"
A Repeal of the Income Tax = A Decline in Education	Retirees Day on Beacon Hill to Fight for a Fair and Just C.O.L.A. ( May 13, 2008)	Lawrence faces 'inevitable fiscal crisis'
What kind of teacher is Lawrence looking for?	‘A True Gentleman’ — Remembering Jay Porter

Contract	School System	General
Lawrence teachers overwhelmingly support new contract	Board of Education Names Ohio Policy Leader New Commissioner of Education	Tom Chapin song, Not on the Test. The song should be required listening for all of our federal and state legislators.
New contract proposal read here	Secretary of Education: Paul Reville	Why This Song? Not on the Test A NPR "Morning Edition" Interview with Tom Chapin and John Forster
Contract Action # 1:	Seeking a kinder word for failure Schools' morale front and center	Legislation to create an Executive Office of Education
Contract Action # 2	Get Arlington Middle School up to standard Eagle Tribune Editorial 1.9.08	Ferocious fire takes out almost an entire city block
Click Here for our LTU Proposal	Superintendent: Arlington Middle needs work, but is not failing. ET 1.8.08	Health Insurance Trust Fund
Motion: "No member of the bargaining unit will perform hours, including, but not limited to, work/service/training, outside the parameters of the current binding agreement	Arlington Middle School faces takeover; state ed board could vote this month Eagle Tribune 1.4.08	AFT Massachusetts 40th Annual Convention
YOU ARE WORTH $30 per HOUR	Commissioner's Recommendations on 10 Underperforming Schools	Lawrence Teachers' Union..an historical prospective.
:Another budget mess to untangle. Globe 1.6.08	Lawrence School Committee member arrested	Fire ravages Lawrence landmark
Layoffs, cutbacks loom as city scrambles to right budget	Lawrence police ask why alleged sex assault at school wasn't reported
98% of Lawrence Teachers voted NO CONFIDENCE in Superintendent Laboy!	Cutbacks, fee hikes to balance budget unveiled for council	*'His [Laboys] actions give Lawrence public schools another* black eye'.** Boston Globe 12.12.07
	Lame Duck School Board awards Laboy raise behind closed doors.	Student being given second chance for high-school mural
	Laboy could get pay raise and contract extension; Teachers reject contract offer	Student’s artwork of King, Malcolm X removed: ET:12.10.07
	Lawrence official has criminal past He served time for larceny and forgery in '60s	Laboy misses a teaching opportunity ET 12.13.07
	Committee member's military service questioned; was denied Santa Claus role by city	Students cool about uniforms, but can't warm up to shoe rule
	Laboy says teachers' union in crisis	Popular teacher gets 'pink slip,' students protest: ET 5/12/07
	School Committee Update	Teachers union head calls for more cops at Lawrence High School
	Resistance expected on school board	School addresses & Phone Numbers
	Restructuring of the Arlington Middle School. Grievance	Police feared riot as hundreds cheered girls' fight at Lawrence High; 5 arrested
	A Crisis of Confidence By: Frank McLaughlin	Teacher's nose broken as students brawl at high school