Negotiating What Matters Most: Collective Bargaining and Student Achievement
Posted on | August 18, 2007 | Comments Off on Negotiating What Matters Most: Collective Bargaining and Student Achievement
Despite a statutorily narrow scope of bargaining, the scope of topics of union-management discussions has widened over the last 20 years, resulting in the birth of reform, or professional, unionism. But over the last half decade, professional unionism has waned. School management often refuses to see unions as partners, politicians fail to view unions as legitimately speaking for education change, and unions themselves are reluctant to assume added responsibility.
In this article in the American Journal of Education, (2007) we advocate a change in labor law requiring unions and school management to negotiate over student achievement. For teachers to have a labor contract that allocates a substantial part of a school’s resources, they should reach agreement on achievement targets.
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