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The Hurricane Network: District Takeover and Neoliberal Reconstruction in the Emerging 'Global City'
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Direct linkNirali Jani – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
This article traces the state takeover and neoliberal reconstruction of a mid-size urban school district in the California Bay Area. Aligning with research on social networks in school reform, it identifies three organizational nodes of power operating within the takeover and post-takeover landscape: venture-philanthropic capital, the Teach for…
Descriptors: School Districts, Neoliberalism, States Powers, Educational Change
Scribner, Campbell F. – American Journal of Education, 2015
This article examines the legal and political significance of teacher unionization in rural and suburban school districts between 1960 and 1975. While most historians focus on the growth of unions in urban areas, strikes in outlying districts played a determinative role in the development of public sector labor law, particularly in the arbitration…
Descriptors: Educational History, United States History, Unions, Rural Schools
James, Bill – Thrust for Educational Leadership, 1987
Based on recent bitter experience, this article tells districts how to prepare for a teacher strike. Administrators should assess their public relations program and the strength of their board, know their adversary (the union) and the bargaining process, asssess the management team, and plan strategically. (MLH)
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Collective Bargaining, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Relations
McDermott, Betty; And Others – 1981
Compiled in response to California legislation excluding confidential employees (staff whose jobs involve access to information regarding employer-employee relations) from collective bargaining units and authorizing districts to expand their management teams to include confidential employees, this handbook defines the role of the confidential…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Employee Attitudes
Download full textMayer, Martin – 1969
In late spring of 1967, the New York City Board of Education recognized an experimental school district, comprised of two junior high schools and six elementary schools, in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville area of New York City. The prime impetus for this experiment in community involvement in decentralized school administration stemmed from a coalition…
Descriptors: Administrator Selection, Board of Education Policy, Civil Rights, Collective Bargaining
Kerchner, Charles T.; Mitchell, Douglas – 1981
Conclusions about public school labor relations advanced in this report are based on analysis of data from a two-phase study. The first phase consisted of case studies conducted during entire collective bargaining cycles in eight school districts--four in Illinois and four in California. The second phase of the research expanded the work into 65…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Citizen Participation, Collective Bargaining, Conflict Resolution
