scholarly journals To the Issue of the Public Education System on the Territory of the Caucasian Educational District in 1848−1917. Part 1

Bylye Gody ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Shelton

This chapter chronicles the new reality faced by urban teacher unions after the emergence of austerity regimes in many American cities. It charts teacher strikes in St. Louis (1979) and Philadelphia (1980 and 1981). In each case, teacher unions faced staunch taxpayer resistance to salary increases, and in the case of Philadelphia, a mayor who dealt with massive budget deficits by reneging on a collectively-bargained contract. As importantly, in Philadelphia, opponents of the “unproductive” urban poor and unionized teachers began to imagine market reforms of the public education system. The chapter concludes by documenting the emergence of vouchers in order to understand the mounting challenge of neoliberalism to American public education.


2002 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadeem A. Burney ◽  
Othman E. Mohammed

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