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In an article published Thursday on the education news site EdSource, ex-superintendent Carl Cohn argued that Gov. Gavin Newsom should bargain directly with statewide unions for teachers and classified staff, simplifying a tangled process of reopenings across the state that currently involves individual districts negotiating with their employees unions.
That would mean temporarily suspending local collective bargaining, a radical step, but one that’s needed, Cohn argued.
“Schools aren’t going to reopen anytime soon across the state if the details and agreements on in-person instruction have to be reached through local collective bargaining agreements and memoranda of understanding in more than 1,000 school districts,” he wrote.