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Unlikely Allies: Unions and Districts in the Battle for School Reform

January 11, 2011 by Ben Penn

Unlikely Allies: Unions and Districts in the Battle for School Reform

Education Sector

Faced with the task of turning around failing schools using federal stimulus funds, the city of Providence, R.I., is believed to be the first in the nation to align its school district leadership and local teachers’ union into a single governing body responsible for reform.

Though this partnership taking place at four Providence public schools is new and cannot yet report results showing improvement, or failures, the nonprofit education policy think tank Education Sector has issued a report on this partnership between two bureaucracies normally in