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Steffensen, James P. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1964
The purpose of this bulletin is to describe the current status of proposals for formalizing negotiation procedures between teachers and their boards of education, indicating some potential trends. The entire issue of collective negotiation by teachers remains of relatively recent origin in terms of interest on a national scale, and the directions…
Descriptors: Unions, Collective Bargaining, Boards of Education, Teacher Associations
Stahl, Ben – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1990
Describes the role of the Wilmington (Delaware) local of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) in desegregating the state's school system. AFT leaders were instrumental in integrating teacher professional development sessions in 1945. (FMW)
Descriptors: Black Teachers, Educational History, Equal Education, Professional Continuing Education
Cramer, Jerome – American School Board Journal, 1984
Following a 1980 strike by San Jose, California, public school teachers, the San Jose school board was embarrassed by a $6.2 million budget surplus into granting a teacher contract beyond its fiscal capacity. The school board's subsequent decision to declare bankruptcy established a controversial precedent for similar actions elsewhere. (JBM)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Arbitration, Board of Education Role, Collective Bargaining
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Thomas, William B.; Moran, Kevin J. – Paedagogica Historica, 1991
Describes the political struggles of the Teacher's Educational League in Buffalo, New York, and its founder, Mary A. O'Conner. Discusses the issues and problems women teachers encountered in attempts to reform teacher administrator relations. Traces the league's challenge to the Board of Education and the state of New York; explains that many of…
Descriptors: Activism, Boards of Education, Educational History, Labor Demands
Gaswirth, Marc; And Others – 1982
Researchers analyzed 127 public school teachers' strikes in New Jersey during the 36 school years from 1945 through 1981, presenting their data in over 60 tables. Data were collected from newspapers, magazines, and journals; through personal interviews; and via a questionnaire survey of affiliates of the New Jersey Education Association and the…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Collective Bargaining, Educational History, Educational Policy