Understanding the Teacher Union Contract: A Citizen's Handbook

By Myron Lieberman

Book Overview

Unionization of teachers has lead to major changes in education management, and in relations between teachers and school districts. This text looks at how teacher union contracts affect the workplace... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765800144
• ISBN13: 9780765800145
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

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A true fact to the point truth about teachers unions. This book tells how to deal with them, and help make it a fair deal for the tax payer!

Giving Away the Right to Manage

If you wondered what was wrong in government schooling, the union contract is a good place to find answers. Teacher unions often control both sides of the bargaining table by influencing school board elections and policy making. Management (encouraged by bad court decisions) has given away its rights to fire poor teachers, to pay on basis of performance, and to hold teachers responsible for results. School boards sign contracts that prohibit them to contract out failing schools to private management, to create charter schools without union approval, or to issue vouchers so children in failing schools can select a private alternative to government-operated schooling. This is a scholarly book that presents facts without a chip on its shoulder against unions. But the reader may question in the end why as a society we would place monopoly power in the hands of the National Education Association and its state and local affiliates. We certainly were not considering the welfare of our children in so doing.