Bargaining to Achieve Teacher Control in Ontario

"The Assault on School Teacher Bargaining in Ontario"

Between 1975 and 1997, school teacher bargaining was conducted under the School Boards and Teachers Collective Negotiations Act (Bill 100). By most accounts, the teacher bargaining law was successful in promoting bilateral settlements with minimal strike activity. Following its election in 1995, the Harris government reduced public expenditures and introduced educational reforms. In doing so, i...

Teacher Compensation and Collective Bargaining

While compensation accounts for roughly 90% of K-12 instructional costs, there is little evidence of rational design in these systems. This chapter reviews the nature of teacher compensation systems in developed economies and research on their performance effects. Since these compensation schemes typically arise out of collective negotiations, this chapter also surveys the smaller literature on...

"Ineffectiveness in Teacher Bargaining: The Anatomy of a First Strike"

Teacher Salaries, State Collective Bargaining Laws, and Union Coverage

What are the causal effects of collective bargaining (CB) on teacher salaries? This seemingly simple question is difficult to answer because (a) national data measuring school district salaries and collective bargaining is limited in scope, while individual teacher data from the CPS mismeasure CB coverage; (b) union wage effects depend not only on coverage but also on an array of CB law provisi...

Adjusting control points to achieve continuity

In this paper, I discuss a method for increasing the continuity between two functional triangular polynomial patches by adjusting their control points. The method described in this paper leaves the control points unchanged if the patches already meet with the desired level of continuity. As an example of using this construction, I give a simple method to construct a C0 patch network with high o...