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Show 53 for collective bargaining has teacher.18 the school been to improve On the other hand, boards have not admitted that they have opposed collective but it is grounds, likely boards have the power to reason, the economic membership high taxes boards have important to tax-paying property have business backgrounds, and come are to the business orientation of board reputations for from concerned to.19 inevitable. members, school being dollar conscious when To fund the kind of educational Since the collective it comes to not increase them if any way the NEA-Affiliate movement would like, tax increases tax to For this board members which normally taxes and most boards will be found not cause concern By law, most property. on economic on taxes. Probably due raising levy boards becomes very upper-middle class, about provide schools. readily major a lot of thinking of board members and candidates for who elect the school owners the on bargaining that economics has been them since money is necessary to school the financial bargaining can programs which are process is __ seen likely as to increases, it is possible that the fear of raising taxes 18They have indicated that their concern is to have education This is one of the main thrusts behind the NEA drive for power. See John Ryor's statement (quoted in Chapter II) found in liThe Uses of Teacher Power,1I Today's Education 64 (November-December 1975): 5. a well-funded enterprise. 19In 1968, the NSBA published an annotated bibliography of studies of school boards. The bibliography was the result of a Stanford University project funded by the Carnegie Foundation. It was published in four consecutive series beginning with the American School Board Journal 155 (April 1968): 22-5. The findings of the various studies confirm the above profile of the average school board member. |
