The Montgomery County Education Association — which represents about 14,000 educators — wants the entire negotiation process to be open to all of its members.
The union hosted a news conference this week in front of the county’s Board of Education, where three union members shared testimonials of low morale among teachers due to high and unsustainable workloads. They argued teachers have left the profession at alarming rates and called for the school system to send a negotiator to the table.But roughly an hour before the news conference, Superintendent Monifa B.
McKnight also noted that the school system had already started negotiations with its other two unions representing administrators and other school staff.
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