This article describes how the rising cost of health insurance is being picked as the top budget concern of school businesses. These data were the result of a survey conducted by the Association of School Business Officials International. Schools report that the cost of insuring employees is outpacing increases in state and local budgets that…

The last public White Paper acknowledged that teacher numbers can no longer be tied strictly to pupil-teacher ratios as school rolls decline, if the different needs of pupils are to be met, and a sufficient range of specialist teachers employed to maintain a full curriculum. (Author)

A 1977 survey of 102 immigrant teachers in London showed that ethnic minority teachers have great difficulty finding jobs, although they are adequately qualified. Those who do find work are mainly employed in ghetto areas and kept on the lowest pay scale. (Author/SJL)

School districts may benefit by establishing health education/ promotion programs for its employees. Twelve steps in doing so are presented. Health benefits will accrue to employees while employers'"bottom line" will be reduced by their investment in employees' health. Detailed planning steps are outlined. (Author/JL)

Presents a 14-point plan for reforming education by improving teacher incentives. Proposals include raising salaries and merit pay; developing summer employment assistance centers, a teacher placement program, and employee suggestion compensation; increasing teachers' participation in school policy; providing early retirement plans and tax…

Three critics comment on M. Elizabeth Wallace's October l984 "College English" article, "The Richness of Language and the Poverty of Part-Timers: Impact and Invisibility," and Wallace responds. (EL)

Teachers with physical disabilities may be just as good--and in some ways better--than teachers without them, as is demonstrated by this look at a well-qualified, highly motivated but unemployed early childhood educator with a hearing impairment. (PGD)

A disaggregated empirical study using the production function model with multiple regression statistical techniques found that comprehensive collective negotiating processes in Wisconsin's public school districts had no significant effect on the improvement of teachers' fringe benefits in 1979-80. (PGD)

The purpose of this study was to ascertain whether or not the perceived needs for assistance are different at the following times during an individual's career as a vocational agriculture teacher: completion of the professional semester, early during the first year of teaching, and early during the second year of teaching. (SSH)

The Term Contract Nonrenewal Act, passed by the Texas Legislature in August 1981, provides term contract teachers with the option of a due process hearing before nonrenewal. Specific aspects of this act, dealing with teacher evaluation, notice of nonrenewal, hearings, and decisions and appeals, are reveiwed. (CJ)

Granting unpaid leaves of absence to teachers who are at or near the top of the school district's teacher pay scale will save the district money. Such leaves benefit teachers by satisfying whatever needs inspired their requests, and offer students a new enthusiastic teacher in the classroom. (Author/MLF)

Long-term disability income coverage is seen as the most rapidly growing staff benefit in recent years. A Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association's survey of existing long-term disability plans, which provide adequate income replacement, is discussed. (MLW)

Discusses the Intergovernmental Personnel Act by which federal agencies are helping to ease the oversupply of college staff in many disciplines by temporarily hiring selected faculty members. (SJL)

Discussed in this article are the respective shortcomings and advantages of tenure laws. A merit point system is suggested as an alternative whereby educators would be held accountable for what they do and at the same time would be afforded equitable job security. (Author/EB)

A revamping of the operation of the current academic labor market by drawing upon the system found in professional sports is suggested. To stimulate thought, it is proposed that rules governing free agency, professor reservation, first refusal, trading, and salary arbitration be applied to higher education to replace current, outdated procedures.…