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Show 35 It negotiation movement. or power, can be expected that at least appear to, groups which feel raise their eyebrows if voices.39 not their School Boards Association has taken making policy decisions. be discussed later. negotiations movement with teacher a Of course, the National stand against teachers The idea of teachers began to teachers gain threatened will making policy will Suffice it to say here that publishing articles aimed to deal as as the collective g,ather momentum, the NSBA began at school board members telling them how militancy.40 Another reaction to the direction the professional association movement has taken has come from teachers themselves who find the union-like tactics and the tough talk repugnant to their professionalism. Professional An organization Educators (NAPE) has sense of called the National Association of recently bargaining representation election. in one been formed.4l NAPE Wisconsin ci.ty and was won a able 39The National PTA organization, while not stating it is against teacher power, has modified its stand concerning its own role. In 1976, it deleted from its by-laws this statement, "This association shall seek neither to direct the administrative activities of the school nor to control its policies." The replacement statement reads, "The association shall work with the schools to provide quality education for all children and youth, and shall seek to participate in the decision-making process establishing school policy, recognizing that the legal responsibility to make decisions has been delegated by the people to boards of education." See National PTA Bylaws '76 (Chicago: National Congress of Parents and Teachers, 1976), p. 3. 40For articles which instruct board members on how to meet with teacher unions and associations, see the 1969 and 1970 editions of American School Board Journal. 4lllTwo New Thrusts in Education," Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 30 September 1975, p. 4-A. It is reported in this article that NAPE had recently won a negotiations representative election in a city in Wisconsin. |
