they should make it a jury trial by district parents

Most of the top-heavy & the boyd-ers, of course, would only want someone they have in their pocket and most of Harrisburg, are in the Union's pockets. Also, top-heavy close to "retirement" want that big pay-off- because their cohorts got it, just like
Philly people want the drop program, no matter how devastating the effect. Greed for power and money!!! The new teachers and non-Boyders are bearing the brunt of this fiasco. The boyd-ers have driven the teaching profession to an all-time low.

PLEASE Judge Baldi.....help us stop the madness!!!

If you're referring to the school board election, Ray, I assume you mean November 2013 since there is no election in 2012.

More frequent negotiations won't increase productivity of the sessions. It's a common strategy that hopes the opposing side will become tired by the burden, and will break down and make concessions it wouldn't normally make.

Any meetings of substance usually require some after-meeting research that takes days or more. What good will it do to meet the next day or day after when the research hasn't been completed?

If the goal is to make the meetings productive, then it's time to start having negotiations videotaped. The posturing will stop, the stalling will stop, the he-said, she-said will stop. Normally negotiations are confidential, but after 4 years of zero progress it's time to shake things up.

1. In 5 years the least expensive proposal the NFT has provided cost taxpayers $30M more in 3 years including 80% retro pay at current value.
2. NO proposal the NFT has offered saves taxpayers a single penny in current budget cost. All 8 were cost plus proposals adding significantly to an already unaffordable & unsustainable education budget.
3. If you include all perks that the NFT has that no other teachers in PA have, there is no debate that NFT is the highest in overall compensation. Using Only salary & benefit profiles to compare makes no sense since much that the NFT get is not included (e.g. Longevity pay, Premium Rolls Royce Health care costing on average $27K per teacher, life insurance in retirement, no HC premium contribution while working, 100% health ins coverage for retirees after only 10 years of NSD service, a $27.5K retiree bonus, 37% opt out payment equaling $10K payment per year($1M overall to taxpayers) & amazingly a COLA in contract. Retiree health care & $27.5K bonus have cost taxpayers $35M in the last decade. None of this impacted classroom education.
4. If you research what taxpayers in NSD have paid vs the other top cost Bucks school districts you find that over the past decade NSD taxpayers have paid nearly $100M more in "extra" taxes just pertaining to the cost of our teachers CBA. So normalized for millage it actually cost us more to educate Neshaminy kids due to all the extra money going to perks only to the NFT vs other Bucks teachers.

5. NSD is the only local district STILL paying for MEQs as most did away with it in the 1990s or earlier. That alone has cost us roughly $30M extra in last 10 years.
6. According to NSD lawyers & administration the NFT are the only union in PA & NJ that has something in a CBA called an "equal say clause".
7. Annual Salary does not equal lifetime compensation/cost; nor does NSD compensation to its teachers end upon their retirement as in other districts. NSD teachers are compensated 8% more per year than CRSD teachers over the life of a comparable career.
8. The NFT has the shortest work day & work year. Taxpayers actually lose money with lost teaching time vs other districts since the NFT is compensated more than other teachers in Bucks that work more hours per year.
9. With a mere 11 steps i.e. 11 years to go from $42K to $95.6K plus MEQs we pay more faster for less experience than other districts.
10. There is no possible reason or explanation for the NFT to warrant a CBA richer in pay & perks than the local market supports, therefore a parity contract to Souderton is fully appropriate including the removal of objectionable non-economic terms.

Neshaminy cannot afford the NFT's sky-high demands! Time to decertify & start over!