The 50-State Comparison on teacher employment contract policies provides a national comparison of teacher employment contract policies in all states. All of the information was gathered from and focused on state statutes and regulations. State case law was also utilized for metrics related to collective bargaining. Data collection focused…

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…

For both proponents and critics alike, among the most salient features of charter schooling today is their freedom from collective bargaining agreements that shape staffing and work rules and limit school administrators' discretion. This is changing in some states where a small but growing number of charter schools are unionized. How collective…

About 12 percent of all charter schools have bargaining agreements. Why do charter schools unionize? What is in these charter school contracts? Can they be considered innovative or models for union reform? And how do they compare to traditional district/union teacher contracts? Center on Reinventing Public Education legal analyst Mitch Price…

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.…

Three techniques are outlined for use by higher education institutions to achieve salary equity: salary prediction (using various statistical procedures), counterparting (comparing salaries of persons of similar rank), and grievance procedures. (JT)

This agreement between the county of Rockland, the Board of Trustees of Rockland Community College and the Rockland Community College Federation of Teachers, Local 1871 covers the period September 1, 1972 to August 31, 1975. Articles of the contract cover recognition, no-strike clause, negotiating unit, duration of agreement, savings clause,…

This publication consists of two papers that examine different topics related to collective bargaining for school personnel and alternative methods of determining teachers' and principals' salaries. The papers were originally prepared to serve as a basis for discussion at a 1976 meeting sponsored by the Canadian School Trustees' Association for…

This document is a formal contract between the Gogebic Community College Board of Trustees and the Michigan Association of Higher Education, Gogebic Community College District. Contract articles cover recognition, bargaining, rights of the board of trustees, instructor rights, employment policies and practices, vacancy qualifications, leaves,…

This agreement, entered into on July 8, 1974, will continue in effect until June 30, 1975. Articles of the agreement cover: association rights; academic conditions; personnel files; faculty concerns; department organization and duties; grievance procedures; management rights; fringe benefits; and salaries. Additional material includes the school…

Presented in this document is the agreement between the Board of Junior College District No. 532 County of Lake and State of Illinois and the College of Lake County Local United Professions Association for the period from 1972-73. Covered in the articles of agreement are sections on negotiation procedures, leaves of absence, school calendar, use…

Structural reform in higher education collective bargaining is examined in these conference proceedings, along with recent state bargaining legislation, and legal, union, and management views concerning sex discrimination in higher education. The 19 article topics and authors include: the problem of reshaping the fringe package (Claude Campbell);…

Comparative information on faculty salaries, fringe benefits, and related practices, reported in tabular form, comprises this report which covers all New York state community colleges including those where employees have not organized into formal negotiating units. Most items presented deal with contractual provisions, although some represent…

This agreement was made and entered into as of April 9, 1974 by and between Monmouth College, West Long Branch, New Jersey; and the Faculty Association of Monmouth College, a corporation of the state of New Jersey. The agreement is in effect until June 30, 1976. Articles of the agreement include sections covering: academic rank; equal employment;…

This agreement between the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and the Council of Chapters of the American Association of University Professors at the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey is effective from June 8, 1973 to June 30, 1975. Contained in the agreement are articles covering policy statements, grievance procedures,…