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Thompson, Charles W.; Brown, Kimberly Wilson – Executive Educator, 1987
To make school salaries truly market sensitive, administrators need salary data from the private sector and cooperating school districts. In Atlanta, Georgia, the Metropolitan Regional Educational Service Agency used a local, privately completed salary survey. One inset suggests alternative private and government agency sources; another outlines…
Descriptors: Comparable Worth, Elementary Secondary Education, Salaries, Salary Wage Differentials
Zakariya, Sally Banks – Executive Educator, 1985
The concept of comparable worth bases its legal claims in the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and a 1981 decision of the United States Supreme Court. Still, assertions that comparable worth should be invoked to correct wage discrimination have usually been rejected in federal courts. (PGD)
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Court Litigation, Federal Courts, Salary Wage Differentials
Rist, Marilee C. – Executive Educator, 1984
A number of school systems are using innovative strategies to recruit the teachers they need. (MLF)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Incentives, Retraining, Salary Wage Differentials
Zakariya, Sally Banks – Executive Educator, 1985
Describes the concept of comparable worth, discusses opposing views concerning whether inequities in pay are results of discrimination, considers efforts to determine the comparability of jobs, including teaching, notes the possible impact of implementing comparable worth legislation, and cites developments in state legislation and local school…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Court Litigation, Employer Employee Relationship, Salary Wage Differentials
Ramsey, Robert D. – Executive Educator, 1985
After describing the concept of comparable worth and reviewing arguments for and against the idea, the author proposes seven cautions for district administrators to heed when faced with the need to respond to the comparable worth issue and suggests a seven-step plan for taking action to improve pay equity. (PGD)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Collective Bargaining, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines
