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The News-Herald of Willoughby provides some examples of local government initiative in truly improving efficiency and productivity.

However, this follow up suggestion will run into the reality of public employee collective bargaining:

[School districts] should be open to ideas such as sharing teachers or other personnel whose strengths can help neighboring districts.

We encourage school officials to find ways to trim expenses and remember that doing so helps taxpayers.

The News-Herald should turn the bright light of its investigative reporting on the teacher union contracts as they are negotiated in its communities. The paper will find how school officials - complicit though they may be in negotiating the contracts the way they do - have their hands tied when it comes to really significant cost savings and productivity improvement.

Tags: Local Government, Taxes, Teacher Unions

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