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NASHVILLE — the gap widened Monday between the Republican Governor Bill Haslam and Republican Senate speaker Ron Ramsey on the prohibition of collective bargaining by teachers even as tea party activists resumed their attacks against the Governor and legislative Republicans who don't back the abrogation.
In a post on his Facebook page, Haslam, who supports a commitment to House about the ability of teachers to bargain with school boards, said Republican and democratic "bipartisan" cooperation in the past year in pursuing changes in State law.
Those enabled Tennessee to qualify for a federal race for $ 500 million to the top grant, Haslam argued in a post borrowed from the Governor's opinion piece, which appeared Sunday in some newspapers in the State.
"Somewhere along the way since then, a partisan tone arose," Haslam, wrote: "there will be differences as the details are worked out, but may not allow the issues that divide us divert the path of reform of education that we are in."
Haslam is pushing for tougher laws for possession of professor and making it easier to create and participate in charter schools. Both accounts are the committees in the House today and Wednesday, respectively.
Ramsey, who is struggling to draw teachers of their collective bargaining rights, subsequently declared analysis Haslam is "misleading a bit" and suggested also the relative inexperience of the Governor, who only took office in January, is coming into play in the Union of teachers.
Republican and democratic legislators last year wanted to race the top changes, which tied reviews student performance to teacher, to "pass on grounds completely different," argued Ramsey.
Republicans voted for it "because they saw it as a real opportunity to change education policy and tie teacher evaluations for testing, something which we promoted for years," he said.
But Democrats voted in favor, Ramsey said, because "it was his friend Governor [Phil Bredesen] proposes it. And paragraph 2, they saw was a way to get $ 500 million of federal money for education. To say that there was a bipartisan cooperation in the race to the top is a little misleading because cooperation was the end result, not the process to get it there. "
With respect to efforts to strip the Tennessee Education Association 52000-member of its collective bargaining rights, Ramsey said that "there is nothing more sacred" to Democrats than "Union".
He said that a "classic" philosophical argument is playing out on "if unions are actually productive for education or an obstacle."
Asked why he thinks Haslam has not joined in, Ramsey said, "that is why I think he's new at work. And he hasn't experienced what I have lived in my 19 years in the legislature. This is not a criticism. This is a fact. I saw teachers ' Union oppose still more common sense reforms, because they saw as a threat. "
Haslam has thrown its support behind the House speaker Beth Harwell, R-Nashville and leaders of the House who improvised a compromise restricting collective bargaining rights of teachers, but not eliminate them entirely.
He did not mention collective bargaining in his op-ed piece, but alluded to it several times, noting that "our local school councils are in a better position to determine how to work with teachers in the basic configuration of remuneration and benefits".
The compromise allows but excludes merit pay and differential wage negotiations.
Also on Monday, leaders of the tea party of Tennessee called on supporters to put pressure on 20 Republicans, they claim they are "waffling" on the Bill on collective bargaining.
They also overflew the Haslam and Harwell, noting in an alert by email/newsletter that Harwell is "in tune with the Governor Haslam, who proved weak in a variety of issues confronting our State.
Tea party leaders of Tennessee said they had been told that 47 House Republicans support a complete ban. The Bill has 50 votes to pass. There are 64 House Republicans, 34 Democrats and one independent. All Democrats appear contrary to the prohibition.
Among those listed as "waffling" were Rep. Richard Floyd, r.-Chattanooga and Rep. Vince Dean, R-East Ridge.
"I don't know where they got their information," said Floyd. "Listen, I support the Senate Bill that is out there."
Dean noted that he is a sponsor of the House version of the Bill.
"They [the tea party leaders] are entitled to their opinions," he said. "As far as I can remember — and I think I would — I haven't cast a vote yet. I don't know how I'm waffling on anything ".
Contact the writer Andy Sher at asher@timesfreepress.com or 615-255-0550.
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