This chapter summarizes and analyzes all state supreme court and federal court decisions as well as other significant court decisions involving school employees. The cases discussed are generally limited to those decided during 1974 and reported in the General Digest on or before March 1, 1975. Because of its unusual significance, the author also…

This paper proposes an analytical perspective that illuminates the major variables in the establishment of labor relations policy in education. It describes the relationships that exist between collective bargaining, the pursuit of the public interest, and the protection of client interests in the processes of schooling. The anslysis is based on…

This technical handbook, designed for school board negotiators and other school officials, contains a comprehensive set of typical teacher demands in negotiations. Each demand is followed by an analysis that represents a management advocate's position that might be offered to a client school board. The demands in this report have been taken from…

Reports results of a study to determine status of education in Iowa seven years after the onset of collective bargaining. Compares opinions of boards of education, administrators, and teachers regarding job satisfaction, public opinion, working conditions, teacher/superintendent/board relations, board power, salaries, instruction, teacher input,…

The management principles set forth in this handbook encourage broad public and employee involvement. The first of three sections, "Management in Education," looks at the current state of the art, the potential benefits of sound management, and what school boards can do to encourage development of a true management process for their districts. The…

To clarify the role of collective bargaining in defining and reforming local school district staffing policies, an analysis was made of 144 teacher contracts gathered from a stratified, random sample of districts. In five of these districts, selected for their diversity on a number of variables (state, region, size, labor history, contract, and…

Collective bargaining relationships in school districts are affected by court actions in a variety of ways. Courts have acted as a "surrogate legislature" by providing legal structures where legislation is absent and by modifying legislation through the process of statutory construction. This paper examines the courts' role in structuring…

This thirty-first edition of the "Yearbook" is a comprehensive reference to recent state appellate and federal court decisions affecting the operation and governance of public elementary and secondary schools in the United States. This edition includes all reported cases relevant to public schools decided during the 1980 calendar year as well as…

Legislative and political issues are examined in this study of the forces governing the structure of control shared by the individual institutions of the California community college system (CCC) and various state agencies. The report first summarizes and compares the findings of three earlier studies of the college-state relationship: (1) William…

This book is intended to provide preservice teachers with insights into many of the major legal problems associated with the operation of public schools. It attempts to convey a basic understanding of important court decisions and how they affect classroom practices. Separate chapters are devoted to discussion of the American legal tradition,…

This paper, which highlights the findings of a recently completed doctoral dissertation, attempts to: (1) identify the desirable professional competencies of superintendents as perceived by South Dakota school board members and superintendents, themselves; and (2) determine which competencies, when performed unsatisfactorily, are the most common…

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…

In its thirtieth year of publication, this volume is a comprehensive reference to state appellate and federal court decisions affecting the operation and governance of public elementary and secondary schools in the United States. This edition includes all cases relevant to public schools decided during the 1979 calendar year and reported in West's…

The major focus of this study is on altering the current structure of collective bargaining in public education to provide for adequate community participation. Concentrating on big city school systems where minorities and the poor have historically been apart from the educational policy-making process, the study finds that the scope of bargaining…

The governance of community colleges in western Canada is increasingly influenced by the activities of federal and regional agencies, provincial legislatures, professional and trade associations, and advisory committees. Decision-making is increasingly centralized so that programs are standardized, procedures are routinized, and colleges lack…