Satchwell's out at AAEA

No more "dancing with a drunk"

by Eve Silberman

posted 5/17/2012

"I think every teachers' union in the state wishes they had" a contract like Ann Arbor's, says Forsythe science teacher Dan Ezekiel. Negotiated two years ago, it called for small, temporary pay cuts and promised teachers more money if the district's fund balance--decimated in recent years by reduced state appropriations--improved. Even so, in late March union members turned out the president who negotiated the contract, Forsythe math teacher Brit Satchwell,

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