Bet this story sounds vaguely familiar: New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg threatened to bypass the teachers union and create his own evaluation system. In response, the union tries to get back into the bargaining room.

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Now, where else has something similar happened recently? Granted, Abercrombie didn’t try to design and implement his own teacher evaluations, but circumventing collective bargaining — for whatever the reason — certainly appears to be trending nationwide.

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