Regional School Unit No. 5 v. The Coastal Education Association

[¶ 1] The Coastal- Education Association (the Association), an affiliate of a union representing teachers, appeals from a judgment of the Superior Court (Cumberland County, Warren, J.) vacating an arbitration award, which had required Regional School Unit No. 5 (RSU No. 5) to rescind an educational policy - requiring that elementary school teachers be present in their classrooms ten minutes before the start of the instructional day. The court concluded that this dispute was not substantively arbitrable pursuant to the Municipal Public Employees Labor Relations Law (MPELRL), 26 M.R.S. §§…