Teachers, Administrators Still at Odds in Pa. District

By Jeff Archer

Though the district's contentious experiment in private management is over, turmoil persists in the Wilkinsburg, Pa., public schools, where administrators and teachers are engaged in a long-running contract dispute.

Officials of the 2,000-student system are hoping that an arbitration process slated to begin this month can end the labor strife that resulted in an eight-day teachers' strike just before the winter break.

The Wilkinsburg educators have been working without a new collective bargaining agreement for more than four years. Although the district and the teachers' union have agreed on one-year contract extensions since then, teachers have received only longevity...