Negotiating What Matters Most: Collective Bargaining and Student Achievement

2007 ◽  
Vol 113 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Taylor Kerchner ◽  
Julia E. Koppich

1991 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-298
Author(s):  
Thomas T. Schweitzer




2021 ◽  
pp. 1-43
Author(s):  
Kaitlin P. Anderson ◽  
Joshua M. Cowen ◽  
Katharine O. Strunk

Abstract Over the past decade, many states enacted substantial reforms to teacher-related laws and policies. In Michigan, the state legislature implemented requirements for teacher evaluation based partly on student achievement, reduced tenure protections, and restricted the scope of teacher collective bargaining. Some teacher advocates view such reform as a “war on teachers,” but proponents argue these policies may have enabled personnel decisions that positively impact student performance. Evidence on this debate remains limited. In this study, we use detailed administrative data from all Michigan traditional public schools from 2005-06 to 2014-15. We estimate event study models exploiting the plausibly exogenous timing of collective bargaining agreement expirations. Across a variety of samples and specification checks, we find these reforms had generally null results, with some evidence of heterogeneity by cohort. We investigate several possible mechanisms and conclude that districts with more restrictive teacher contracts prior to reform and districts with more rigorous use of teacher evaluations experienced more positive impacts after reform exposure.







2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-102
Author(s):  
Barbara Biasi

Compensation of most US public school teachers is rigid and solely based on seniority. This paper studies the effects of a reform that gave school districts in Wisconsin full autonomy to redesign teacher pay schemes. Following the reform some districts switched to flexible compensation. Using the expiration of preexisting collective bargaining agreements as a source of exogenous variation in the timing of changes in pay, I show that the introduction of flexible pay raised salaries of high-quality teachers, increased teacher quality (due to the arrival of high-quality teachers from other districts and increased effort), and improved student achievement. (JEL J31, J45, J52, H75, I21)



1991 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles A. Register ◽  
Paul W. Grimes




ASHA Leader ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (9) ◽  
pp. 42-46
Author(s):  
Bridget Murray Law
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