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ERIC Number: EJ1034559
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014-Sep
Pages: 19
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0013-1245
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Aiming for Giants: Charter School Legislation and the Power of Teacher Unions
Giersch, Jason
Education and Urban Society, v46 n6 p653-671 Sep 2014
Historically, strong teacher unions have been successful at gaining benefits and security for their members, but they have been put on the defensive by recent proposals for education reform. Charter schools are one such reform that could threaten unions, but there is wide variety in the content of state charter school laws. Using state-level data from 3 different years, I find that the stronger a state's teacher union, the more antiunion provisions a state's charter school law will contain. These results suggest that antiunion sentiment has reached a level high enough to overcome the unions' ability to influence policy on this issue.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: National Assessment of Educational Progress
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