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The precedent exists. It's just scattered.
Eleven years of contract language sit in board minutes, ISBE filings, and PDFs across 800+ district websites. Nobody at the table sees the whole picture.
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To find which districts negotiated a specific clause, you open PDFs one at a time, if you can find them at all.
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