Walking The Line: The Politics Of Teacher Strikes

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Teachers
in the Rutland Southwest Supervisory Union are on strike this week. Last fall,
teachers in Bennington walked the picket lines for nine days. And several
other communities have narrowly averted walk-offs in the past year. We get an
update on where things stand with the Rutland Southwest strike from Rutland
Herald reporter Cristina Kumka, and we talk to Darren Allen, spokesman for the
Vermont-National Education Association, and Steve Dale, executive director of
the Vermont School Boards Association, about what’s sending so many communities
to the brink of teacher strikes.

Plus,
we head down to the shores of Lake Dunmore in Salisbury, where ten young men recently set off in canoes they built themselves.  They’re planning to paddle 1,200 miles to
James Bay in Ontario, the edge of the Arctic Ocean. The adventure – which they’ve dubbed "Expedition
2012" – is all about raising funds for Camp Keewaydin, on Lake Dunmore, where they met. They’ve raised more than $200,000 for camp scholarships.

And
we open up our mailbag and read from your letters.

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