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...other weight classes, Steve Bailley of Lowell House won at 123; Mark Shanker of Eliot House pinned Mark Schildauer of Winthrop in a hard-fought contest at 137; Mike Clarnon of Leverett won at 152; and Dan White of Quincy House took the 160 class...
...presidency of the 1.4-mil-lion-member National Education Association. On her, therefore, falls the responsibility of trying to negotiate a merger during the coming year with the smaller but more militant American Federation of Teachers (375,000 members). If the negotiations with New York's Albert Shanker and other teacher-union leaders succeed, the combined union will be the second largest...
...next morning the teachers asked me to be salary chairman. We got the pay raise and a lot of other things out of that 32-member board. I tell you, when you can convince 32 people that what you want is reasonable, I think that I can handle Shanker...
Just days before the schools reopened, the United Federation of Teachers, headed by powerful, blustering Albert Shanker, reached an agreement with the Board of Education. The board dropped demands for more work from teachers, promised to hire 1,200 more security guards, and gave in on a few other points, such as reducing the number of years needed to attain tenure from five to three. The board also agreed to pay raises that were small for beginning teachers but made experienced ones the best paid in the nation. In the contract's third year, a teacher with advanced degrees...
...even Shanker's foes concede, as does Director David Seeley of a citizens group called the Public Education Association, that Shanker is "a very smart man who sees a lot further than other people." Since the power over bankrupt city schools is shifting increasingly to the state government, Shanker is moving to create a statewide union -and it is likely that his ambitions do not stop there. With similar merger talks now under way in Michigan and Rhode Island, Shanker speaks openly of hoping to organize the bulk of the nation's 3,000,000 school and college...