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Cohen, Emily; Walsh, Kate – Education Next, 2010
When the Cleveland, Ohio, school board had to make radical cuts in its budget last spring, it was forced to eliminate 540 teaching jobs. There wasn't a whole lot of mystery about "which" teachers among Cleveland's 3,500-member teaching force would be the ones to lose their jobs. The state's hard-and-fast seniority rule--last hired, first…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, State Legislation, Federal Legislation, School Law
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Johnson, Susan Moore; Donaldson, Morgaen L.; Munger, Mindy Sick; Papay, John P.; Qazilbash, Emily K. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2009
Teachers unions are among the most powerful, yet least studied, actors in public education today. Although public attention focuses on the influence of national unions, the policies that most affect teachers and schooling are bargained by local unions and school boards. Interviews with 30 recently elected local union presidents reveal that these…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Unions, Presidents, Public Education
Hawthorne-Clay, Suszanne A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study compares the succession of urban principals working under negotiated collective bargaining agreements and conferred "memorandums of understanding" with particular school boards in three of Ohio's major cities: Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Toledo. Relying on the following information: tenure, licensure status, professional…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, School Districts, Comparative Analysis, Principals
Hoffman, Gordon R.; Brandt, John M. – 1977
The purpose of this booklet, according to the authors, is to survey in sufficient detail the major components of the process of collective bargaining as it has evolved in Ohio schools. Written from a board of education perspective, it is intended as a ready reference for Ohio taxpayers, who are affected by the emergence of strong teachers' unions…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Boards of Education, Collective Bargaining, Elementary Secondary Education
Crisci, Pat E.; Giancola, Joseph M. – Government Union Review, 1986
Outlines a study of the use of "control gains" in collective bargaining contracts of teacher unions in Ohio. Control gains are contract items that give unions control over some aspect of the work environment in lieu of financial gains. They can be offered in contract negotiations when school boards have limited funds. (MD)
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Collective Bargaining, Contracts, Educational Administration
Ohio School Boards Association, Columbus. – 1983
Survey data from 277 Ohio school districts (43 percent of those queried) are collected here in order to analyze trends in the use of statutory and negotiated benefits and collective bargaining with reference to a similar survey published in 1977. Based on surveys returned, information is organized into separate sections for classroom teachers and…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Collective Bargaining, Contracts, Educational Administration