Hartford Principals' & Supervisors' Ass'n v. Shedd

The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether mediation and binding arbitration procedures under the Teacher Negotiation Act are available to resolve contractual disputes between a school board and an employees’ union arising during the term of an existing contract. The plaintiff, Hartford Principals’ and Supervisors’ Association, unsuccessfully appealed to the Superior Court a declaratory ruling on two petitions it had filed with the commissioner of education in which the commissioner held that the mediation and arbitration provisions of the act apply only to the process of bargaining for…