Fight over Montgomery tuition program heads to arbitration

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The fight over whether Montgomery County violated labor agreements by suspending an abused tuition assistance program is headed to arbitration.

Public safety unions said the county failed to follow the contracts administering the tuition assistance program, which awards employees up to $1,730 a year to take courses that will help them with their current or future county jobs, and has unfairly punished employees by suspending the program.

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