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Collective Bargaining and Educational Quality

Learn about mediation, fact finding, and the impact of collective bargaining on educational quality. Discover ways to improve and potentially damage educational quality in unionized districts.

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Collective Bargaining and Educational Quality

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  1. Collective Bargaining and Educational Quality

  2. Review • What is mediation and what do mediators do? • Getting the most out of mediation • What is fact finding and what do fact finders to? • Getting the most out of fact finding

  3. Today • Impact of Collective Bargaining on Educational Quality • Improving Educational Quality in a Unionized District • Case of the Salary Schedule Dispute

  4. I. Impact of Collective Bargaining on Educational Quality • Goldhaber – “Relatively little empirical work directly links unionization and student achievement.” • Tremendous level of rhetoric • Things which are clear • Unionized school systems spend more • Unionized teachers earn more • Very little else is clear

  5. I. Impact of Collective Bargaining on Educational Quality How might collective bargaining improve educational quality? What does research you read find? • Improve pay and attract/retain better candidates • Can help convince teachers to engage in experimentation • In some areas, have negotiated smaller class sizes

  6. I. Impact of Collective Bargaining on Educational Quality How might collective bargaining damage educational quality? What does research you read find? • Single pay scale applies to everyone • Use of seniority in transfers and assignments • Issues related to tenure • Overall

  7. Administrative • Exercise next week, mediation and fact finding. Let’s organize that now • No class the week after • Grievances and arbitration the following week. Note that neither reading is in the text • Grievance and arbitration exercise the following week. Let’s organize that now too

  8. II. Improving Educational Quality in a Unionized District Issues of Concern • Flexibility of scheduling and issues like parent meetings, etc. • Ability to get teachers into situations where they are needed the most • Transfer • Assignment • Termination of incompetent teachers

  9. II. Improving Educational Quality in a Unionized District • Best results where teacher unions and districts work together cooperatively over a long period of time and take a problem solving approach • Don’t just enlist union’s help in reaching your goals, make them partners in setting goals • Use their professional expertise to help solve problems • Treat them as the enemy and they’ll become the enemy!

  10. III. Case of the Salary Schedule Dispute • What should the outcome be here? Why? • How could this have been avoided? • What should be the remedy? • What did the union propose as a remedy and what did the district have to say about it? • Follow-up case

  11. Next Time • Grievances and Arbitration

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