So late this afternoon Ramona and I met up at a nearby watering hole with a number of my work friends who have been deeply involved with the unionization effort at our school. We were celebrating the end of negotiations with management on our first collectively bargained contract. The contract vote is scheduled for Tuesday, and if and when it’s ratified, we will be the first charter school in Arizona to have successfully gotten an enforceable contract. If you’re in Arizona and you keep an eye on the local news, you might actually see some reporting about it on Tuesday or Wednesday.

Many of my friends and colleagues were still there when Ramona and I had to leave, and part of me would have liked to stick around, but I knew I had to come home to recap another Zac Gallen start and my first r

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