ERIC Number: EJ1314170
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Oct
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-189X
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A Negotiated Disadvantage? California Collective Bargaining Agreements and Achievement Gaps
Educational Researcher, v50 n7 p451-462 Oct 2021
Using panel data from three successive collective bargaining (CBA) negotiation cycles from 277 California school districts in a difference-in-differences framework, I investigate the relationship between changes in CBA restrictiveness and racial and economic achievement gaps over time. I find that achievement gaps in California are smaller where contracts increase in restrictiveness in class size and larger where contracts increase in restrictiveness in teacher evaluation and leave policies over time, though this is not the case for all student subgroups. These effects are primarily concentrated in math, are small in magnitude, and are sometimes delayed in their timing. Altogether, this study provides some evidence that contract changes are associated with the educational opportunities of school districts' diverse and economically disadvantaged students.
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Achievement Gap, Racial Differences, Social Differences, Educational Policy, Teacher Evaluation, School Policy, Regression (Statistics), Unions
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California
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