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On Friday, May 2nd, 2014, hundreds of New Bedford Educators Association (NBEA) members attended a general meeting to voice their concerns over what they perceive as an unhealthy climate that now exists within the New Bedford schools.
Earlier in the week Joanne Maura, the teacher and victim of the chair throwing incident at New Bedford High School, led the charge for a no confidence vote for Superintendent of New Bedford Public Schools Dr. Pia Durkin. At the NBEA meeting on Friday, members called for a vote to determine whether or not the body had confidence in Superintendent Dr. Pia Durkin. The vast majority of the members present voted that they did not. One member abstained from voting and no members voted having confidence in the superintendent.
Members that did not attend the meeting sill have the option to cast their votes until Wednesday, May 7th. NBEA President St. John will issue a press release on Thursday, May 8th.
The New Bedford Educators Association represents the New Bedford public school teachers and has approximately 1,000 members.
Change agents are rarely liked…does not mean that the need for such courage is not present. Let her do her work.
Perhaps it is a change in Union leadership that union members should be most concerned wtih!