This article examines how teacher collective bargaining agreements (CBAs), teacher salaries, and class sizes changed during the Great Recession. Using a district-level data set of California teacher CBAs that includes measures of subarea contract strength and salaries from 2005-2006 and 2011-2012 tied to district-level longitudinal data, we…

Are the nation's 90,000-plus school board members critical players in enhancing student learning? Are they part of the problem? Are they harmless bystanders? Among the takeaways are the following: (1) Board members, by and large, possess accurate information about their districts when it comes to finance, teacher pay, collective bargaining, and…

Between 2011 and 2013 lawmakers in every state proposed, and often enacted, laws intended to impact codified state provisions related to teachers and teachers' unions (author calculation). These new laws either worked against union interests (e.g., by prohibiting collective bargaining) or they aligned with union positions (e.g. by providing…

In this report, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) takes a close look at the governance of the teaching profession and finds that state legislators and other state-level policymakers crafting state laws and regulation, not those bargaining at the local level, decide some of the most important rules governing the teaching profession.…

This reference document supports the leadership of locals and state federations in collective bargaining, in designing salary comparisons, and in developing policy. Data are drawn from several sources to more fully describe the American Federation of Teachers' (AFT) largest locals and to describe the nation's largest school districts. Section 1…

A sample of Michigan cities is the basis for an evaluation of the economic benefits of collective bargaining to teachers and the economic impact of bargaining upon the school districts that employ and negotiate with them. The study's conclusions include: (1) Bargaining produced pay increases averaging 10 to 20 percent higher than teachers would…

Suggests that, although collective negotiations have had little overall effect on teachers' salaries, they have had significant impact on other issues. (JF)

This study examines state-to-state variations in the legality of bargaining over class size in public schools, to determine, first, whether these variations in the legal scope of bargaining bear any relationship to actual class sizes and, second, whether these variations are indirectly associated with teachers' salaries. (Author/CT)

A study was conducted to compare the faculty personnel policies of the nine City Colleges of Chicago with those of 31 selected urban community colleges across the country having enrollments of not less than 5,000. Areas examined included faculty salaries, overload compensation, compensation for faculty who substitute for absent faculty, nature of…

Teacher organizations may be accepting larger classes in return for higher salaries. (Editor)

This sourcebook is designed to be useful to school administrators, teacher association representatives, and school board members, in that it presents in a systematic fashion current selected sources of information on conducting negotiations in education. The citations are according to: (1) governmental and education association sponsored economic…

This looseleaf, indexed handbook provides guidelines designed to equip school administrators with the tools, tactics, and techniques necessary to meet the challenge of teacher associations at the bargaining table. The document contains a discussion of the teacher militancy background, some suggestions on how to prepare for negotiations, and a…

WRITTEN FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF A TAXPAYING-PARENT, THIS LETTER DISCUSSES A NUMBER OF FACTORS RELATED TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING BETWEEN TEACHER ASSOCIATIONS AND LOCAL BOARDS OF EDUCATION. BY VIRTUE OF SALARY PROVISION THROUGH TAXES AND PARENTAL CONCERN FOR THEIR CHILDREN'S EDUCATION, THE PUBLIC HAS A GENUINE STAKE IN TEACHER-SCHOOL BOARD BARGAINING.…

Information is presented that is designed to help school board members and public school administrators successfully carry out collective negotiations with teacher organizations. The following topics are discussed: (1) Comparison of private and public collective bargaining, (2) essential ingredients of collective negotiations agreements, (3)…