The materials contained in this school board calendar are intended to help local boards take the appropriate actions required by the state of Oregon at the appropriate times. Many of these board actions involve budget preparation and approval, collective bargaining, and personnel procedures. The calendar suggests activities based on the timeline…

Reports on the leaders and policies of the two million unionized teachers whose delegates held national conventions this past summer. (Author/WM)

Two well-known observers offer different interpretations of the future roles and powers of local school boards. (Author/WM)

Superintendents and school boards need to implement rapidly new measures that will ensure full participation of the building principal in the district's management decision-making process. (Author)

The basic objective of this proposed grievance procedure is to resolve grievances as efficiently and informally as possible. The model recommends three steps. The first provides an established, yet informal, procedure to resolve minor grievances. The employee with the complaint is interviewed by his immediate supervisor and then, if necessary, by…

This document reproduces a series of presentations made at clinics for school board presidents and school superintendents at the University of Wisconsin and Wisconsin State University. Although school board members are usually drawn from the more able segments of society, they approach increasingly difficult problems (new educational demands,…

Presents and discusses some of the findings and recommendations in the book, "Public Testimony on Public Schools," by the National Committee for Citizens in Education Commission on Educational Governance. (IRT)

A survey of Virginia School Board members regarding their attitudes toward collective bargaining in education is reported. (JMF)

Discusses Utah's competency-based education bill (S.B. 154). Includes graduation requirements, role of local boards, task force charge, alternative teacher certification, state education summit, state board of education role in the bill's implementation. (PKP)

In the process of developing a coherent bargaining position, the school board's chief negotiator functions as a group leader, responsible for controlling behavioral dynamics so that the school board is productive and cohesive. Dissonance and dissent are expected components of the position-formulating process, and the negotiator should be…

Two key elements define the stability of the relationship between the school board and the superintendent and of the governance structure--vulnerability, the existence of, or lack of, checks and balances in the structure, and consensus, the agreement or lack of agreement on governance pattern and system goals. (Author/IRT)

The ideal and truly mature relationship between teacher unions and school boards and administrators and the public would be a mutuality of individual and organizational goals. (Published by California School Boards Association, 800 9th Street, Suite 201, Sacramento, California 95814) (Author)

This reference book on collective bargaining is specifically designed to meet the needs of Wisconsin school boards as they conduct collective bargaining with their employees. The first four chapters supply background information necessary to understand Wisconsin's Municipal Employment Relations Act. Chapter 4 explains the scope of bargaining and…

School boards must recognize that bargaining with unionized teachers is becoming inevitable. Attempts to postpone formal negotiation usually result in giving away more by accident than would have been the case in the formal situation. While it is true that formal bargaining involves an adversary relationship between school boards and teachers,…

The school board's negotiating team is all-important in the collective bargaining process, especially in light of the unity and organization of teacher association teams. Upper echelon administrative personnel, not the board members themselves, should compose the board's negotiating team. A board inexperienced in collective bargaining can hire a…