Suggests steps that can be taken if a board member or anyone close to the board has ties with the teacher union and may supply the union with information about the board's position at bargaining time. (IRT)

There is a need for new specialized school management personnel for the successful operation of a modern school system. (Author)

Uses Thanksgiving dinner metaphor to introduce discussion of ways to improve the negotiation process. (PKP)

This is the 16th publication in an annual series intended to provide New Jersey board members and administrators who are representing their district in negotiations with the latest information on legal developments affecting negotiations, practical advice on bargaining strategy and tactics, and a handy source of reference for important case law.…

This guide to effective school board service is a "how-to" manual for school board members. The objective of the book is to condense the time board members need to become more effective school leaders, but it also contains information and advice intended to be helpful to experienced board members. Consisting of 17 chapters, the book is…

To help new school board members gain a quick understanding of their job, this handbook's seven chapters and five appendices present useful guidelines and information. The first chapter discusses the general nature of school board membership, lists 12 characteristics of a good board member, and presents the Illinois Association of School Boards'…

This paper reports on part of a longitudinal study of the interaction between labor relations and governance in one suburban school system. It focuses on the all-important relationship between the school board and the superintendent in an Illinois school district. When dissension between these two parties occurs, it is possible for teachers to…

Three labor relations specialists present their views of the collective negotiation process in public education, based largely on their collective experience with educational negotiations in the State of Michigan. The first chapter, prepared by Charles T. Schmidt, Jr., is an overview of collective negotiations in education and includes a general…

This booklet is designed to help school board members understand New Jersey's public employee relations law and to serve as a useful guide to the operations of the New Jersey Public Employment Relations Commission. Individual chapters focus in turn on the Public Employment Relations Commission, unfair labor practices, the scope of collective…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY IS TO DETERMINE IF THE FORMAT OF GAME THEORY IS APPLICABLE TO THE ANALYSIS OF COLLECTIVE NEGOTIATIONS IN EDUCATION AS EXHIBITED IN UCEA NEGOTIATIONS SIMULATION SITUATIONS. EIGHTY-FOUR SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS, SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS, AND TEACHERS PARTICIPATED IN THE EXPERIMENT AT TWO WORKSHOPS AND ONE SEMINAR ON THE UNIVERSITY…

Written for beginners in education's collective bargaining. (Author)

School superintendents risk being bypassed in the process of bargaining due to the emergence of new management figures, usually labor attorneys or consultants, who conduct collective negotiations between many school boards and teachers. (MF)