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Show 131 promising innovations and has improved staff morale to some [in cases, while in some effect. a it has had the opposite 1134 Collective taken others] measure such has been bargaining has been the tool which has as of control away from boards of education and opposed not After parent groups. seen group of parents which only by board members, but newly formed 1975 strike in Granite School a District, organized boycotts of make-up days which board had scheduled so that penalty.35 ,financial striking teachers would The effect of this Board of Education know that there in the bargaining Granite Board process. were was so to let the Granite were public has dOd eme a This right new policy to know was interested spring 1976, the that parents could be involved by announcing that teacher demands and board offers would public. the not have to face parents who With the coming of changed its policy to the one upset at the way the school board had was handled the strike, a as be released justified by indicating that the why teacher organization requests are 36 . In 1976, the president of the National Congress Teachers, while in Utah, stated that lIeducation is be left solely 34Bennion, 35chaffin, to the professionalsll and of Parents and too important to then added that parents personal letter, August 1976. liThe Parental Boycott," Deseret News, 15 January 1976, I II See al so "Teachers p. Pay Protested, Deseret News, 19 Decem ber 1975, p. B-1. 4-A. 3611Granite 1976, p. B-1. Counter Offer: 5-pct Raise," Deseret News, 23 March |
