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Peer reviewedCheng, Charles W.; And Others – Education and Urban Society, 1979
The current bargaining model, by its very structure, nature and operating assumptions, tends to restrict active citizen participation in deciding many educational policy issues. (Author/EB)
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Citizen Participation, Collective Bargaining, Educational Policy
Download full textStuart, Leland E.; Goldschmidt, Steven M. – 1986
This essay presents an overview of the past 25 years of collective bargaining in American public education. Drawing distinctions between compensation and noncompensation issues, the essay addresses the issue of striking a balance between the interests of organized teachers and the educational interests of their communities, and it incorporates…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role, Collective Bargaining, Community Influence
Peer reviewedKerchner, Charles T. – Education and Urban Society, 1979
The central thesis of this essay is that schools may be becoming both more political and more bureaucratic because of collective bargaining. (Author/EB)
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Centralization, Collective Bargaining, Labor Relations
O'Reilly, Robert C. – 1983
Experience indicates that school boards have an inadequate understanding of labor relations, for they tend to relinquish too much of their authority to teachers' associations. A survey of 11 articles pertaining to labor relations from the "American School Board Journal," 1970-82, reveals the following consensus on areas unsuitable for inclusion in…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Collective Bargaining, Contracts, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedKowalski, Theodore J. – Contemporary Education, 1982
A discussion focuses on the emergence of collective bargaining in the public sector, the prevalence of bureaucratic climates in school districts, and the realization that conflict is a variable dependent on organizational climate and structure. (FG)
Descriptors: Arbitration, Board of Education Role, Bureaucracy, Collective Bargaining
National School Boards Association, Alexandria, VA. – 1988
Members of the National School Boards Association Commission on New Communication in Public School Educational Operations met during the fall of 1987 and winter of 1988 for discussions of the communications issues facing schools and the obstacles to solving them. Out of these talks came a series of broad recommendations on how best to work toward…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Change Strategies, Collective Bargaining, Communication Problems
Peer reviewedPurkey, Stewart C.; Smith, Marshall S. – Elementary School Journal, 1985
Briefly reviews findings from the school effectiveness literature and suggests local strategies and policies that will stimulate school reform. Thirteen characteristics of effective schools are discussed as model guidelines for action; four general policy recommendations are made. (RH)
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Cooperation, Decision Making, Educational Improvement
Oregon Univ., Eugene. Center for Educational Policy and Management. – 1983
This workshop presenter's guide is intended for use by administrators in training one another in the Project Leadership program developed by the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA). The purpose of this particular guide is to train administrators to interpret common contract provisions that affect management's decision-making…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Arbitration
