Local boards of education in New Jersey are authorized by law to withhold increments of staff members in certain circumstances. The purpose of this publication is to provide an analysis and summary of decisions involving a board's exercise of this authority, and it is intended to serve as a guide and a reference tool to be used in determining when…

This report, one of an annual series, analyzes a number of issues critical to educational negotiations in New Jersey in 1982 and reviews important bargaining tactics from the school board's perspective. The articles included deal with the scope of negotiations; the predictable aspects of the bargaining process; basic bargaining errors; the timing…