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Proposition 13 Is a Killer--Of Administrators
American School Board Journal, 1978
For the most part, teachers were protected from job layoffs so the effect of Proposition 13 is being felt by administrators and classified personnel. (IRT)
Descriptors: Administrators, Elementary Secondary Education, Job Layoff, Nonprofessional Personnel
Job Sharing Helps Teachers, Administrators, and Students.
Caplan, Sorrell; Caplan, Dorie – American School Board Journal, 1981
Describes how job sharing may help school districts faced with laying off teachers. Gives responses to the concept of job sharing from parents, administrators, and union leaders. (WD)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Job Layoff, Parent Attitudes
How To Make the Best of Your School District's Enrollment Slide
Keough, William F., Jr. – American School Board Journal, 1975
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment Trends
An Ugly New Malady Called 'Stagflation' Is Now the Number One Killer of High Quality Education
American School Board Journal, 1975
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Inflation (Economics)
How One of North America's Greatest Public High Schools Is Being 'Equalized' to Death
Downey, Gregg W. – American School Board Journal, 1976
Because of a tax-rate drop and problems associated with the state's new equalization plan, New Trier is facing severe cutbacks in its two high schools. (IRT)
Descriptors: Assessed Valuation, Equalization Aid, Finance Reform, Job Layoff
How to Tell Which Teachers to Keep and Which to Lay Off
Nolte, M. Chester – American School Board Journal, 1976
Judges teachers on three criteria: firmness, friendliness, and fairness. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Job Layoff, Teacher Characteristics
What School Boards Do When That Irresistible Force Called RIF Meets That Immovable Object Called Affirmative Action
Downey, Gregg W. – American School Board Journal, 1976
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Board of Education Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Practices
Teacher Unions Grapple with the Crisis Facing Organized Labor.
Levin, Dan – American School Board Journal, 1982
Discusses the effects of federal strikebreaking, private industry wage concessions, and the depressed economy on teacher unions. Some unions are trading job security for wage or contract-language concessions, while others seek wage increases or discuss new areas like class size, insurance, or the promotion of public education. (RW)
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Economic Factors, Elementary Secondary Education, Job Layoff
Follow These 'How to's' When You Must Cut Your Staff
Nolte, M. Chester – American School Board Journal, 1976
Presents seven bits of general advice on how to go about reduction in force. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Collective Bargaining, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
We Kept the Community in Mind When the Time Came to Close Schools.
Shelly, Paul A. – American School Board Journal, 1983
The author describes his own school closure procedures in the Paramus, New Jersey, school district of which he is superintendent, advocating long-range planning and an emphasis on the educational benefits of such closures. Also included is advice on when and how to lay off administrators. (JBM)
Descriptors: Administrators, Educational Opportunities, Job Layoff, Long Range Planning