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Inconvenient Truth? Do Collective Bargaining Agreements Help Explain the Mobility of Teachers within School Districts?
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Goldhaber, Dan; Lavery, Lesley; Theobald, Roddy – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2016
We utilize detailed teacher-level longitudinal data from Washington State to investigate patterns of teacher mobility in districts with different collective bargaining agreement (CBA) transfer provisions. Specifically, we estimate the log odds that teachers of varying experience and effectiveness levels transfer out of their schools to other…
Descriptors: School Districts, Collective Bargaining, Longitudinal Studies, Faculty Mobility
Inconvenient Truth? Do Collective Bargaining Agreements Help Explain the Mobility of Teachers within School Districts? CEDR Working Paper. WP #2015-­1
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Goldhaber, Dan; Lavery, Lesley; Theobald, Roddy – Center for Education Data & Research, 2015
We investigate patterns of teacher mobility in districts with different collective bargaining agreement (CBA) transfer provisions. We use detailed teacher-level longitudinal data from Washington State to estimate the probability that teachers of varying experience and effectiveness levels transfer out of their schools to another school in the…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Faculty Mobility, School Districts, Probability
The Impact of Collective Bargaining and Urbanicity on the Late Hiring of Teachers
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Loubert, Linda; Nelson, F. Howard – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2010
It is commonly assumed that urban school districts hire teachers late due to issues related to district size and/or restrictions in collectively bargained teacher contracts affecting teacher hiring and transfers between schools. Our investigation of late teacher hiring and collective bargaining is based on a survey of 40 school districts that…
Descriptors: Teacher Selection, Urban Schools, School Districts, Pacing
Human Capital in Seattle Public Schools: Rethinking How to Attract, Develop and Retain Effective Teachers
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National Council on Teacher Quality, 2009
Staffing each classroom with an effective teacher is the most important function of a school district. Doing so requires strategic personnel policies and smart practices. This analysis reviews the Seattle Public Schools' teacher policies linked most directly to teacher effectiveness. Ten policy goals frame the analysis. Each of these goals is…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Public Schools, Teacher Effectiveness, Strategic Planning
The Effects of School District Spending Priorities on the Exit Paths of Beginning Teachers Leaving the District.
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Theobald, Neil D.; Gritz, R. Mark – Economics of Education Review, 1996
Shows that teachers ending their first employment assignments are more likely to transfer to another teaching position when state teacher salaries and noninstructional staff salaries are increased or when their districts have high central-office spending. The research was based on a new longitudinal data set providing career history information…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Influences, Longitudinal Studies
An Examination of the Influence of Personal, Professional, and School District Characteristics on Public School Teacher Retention.
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Theobald, Neil D. – Economics of Education Review, 1990
Quantifies the relationships among the personal and professional attributes of teachers, school district characteristics, and the retention behavior of teachers employed by these districts. Retention is negatively related to property wealth and the percentage of Indian and Asian students and is positively related to teaching experience, salary,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Mobility, Labor Turnover, Public Schools