Sentences with phrase «teacher unionization in»

They then discuss how the desegregation lawsuits in the 1960s, demographic shifts starting in the 1950s, California's Proposition 13 property tax reduction measure, and the legalization of teacher unionization in 1975 delegitimized and hollowed out the old institution.

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The undiluted union wish - list — including forced unionization of charter teachers — is contained in a bill sponsored by Harlem Sen. Bill Perkins, which comes before the Senate's Education Committee today.

This suggests that the high unionization rate among teachers plays an important role in their employers» higher average cost.

We find that insurance costs for teachers are 26 percent higher than they are for private - sector professionals, and this is partly explained by greater unionization in the public sector.

In this comparative study of three teachers» unions, the author looks in detail at the factors that have given rise to teacher unionization over the last 25 yearIn this comparative study of three teachers» unions, the author looks in detail at the factors that have given rise to teacher unionization over the last 25 yearin detail at the factors that have given rise to teacher unionization over the last 25 years.

But instead of asking why that is, and exploring why teachers compete for charter jobs with at - will agreements or one - year contracts, they write of union - busting tactics at several charters, see low rates of unionization as a «cause for concern,» and wind up recommending that state laws provide an automatic union vote in the first year of each charter.

Each chapter narrates one episode in the American history of teaching: how teaching became a feminized profession; initial movements toward the unionization of teaching; early teaching in segregated black schools; McCarthy - era attacks on teachers for their politics; conflicts between (mostly white) teachers and (mostly black and Latino) local control advocates; and then on through A Nation at Risk, No Child Left Behind, and Race to the Top.

Other research shows that changes in these laws caused the pace of teachers» unionization to vary considerably, even among states with very similar labor markets such as Ohio and Illinois.

The California Joint Legislative Audit Committee voted Wednesday to audit Alliance College - Ready Public Schools over the charter management organization's use of funds in its unionization conflict with the LA teachers union, UTLA.

The California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) will be seeking an injunction in Los Angeles County Superior Court to stop what it says is illegal interference by officials at Alliance College - Ready Public Schools against a unionization effort by some of its teachers.

The unionization efforts at Alliance schools, which began earlier this year, have touched off the latest proxy war in LA Unified between the union and charter schools, which typically hire non-union teachers.

Zombro noted that lack of unionization is a major factor in the proliferation of charter schools in San Diego County (where 10 % of all students are now in charter schools), and said that just as organization of charter schools is necessary to protect teachers and students, the same holds for private preschools (which, like charter schools, are growing rapidly).

It's the fourth New Orleans charter school with teachers involved in unionization for collective bargaining, and the second whose union - minded educators have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board.

The greatest reduction in poverty in our nation coincided with the expansion of collective bargaining for workers, so we should be supporting unionization, not just of teachers, but of all workers.

Regardless, of the final outcome with the labor board, unionization would have dramatic negative effects on school autonomy and teacher flexibility in Alliance charter schools.