Policy Poison or Promise: Exploring the Dual Nature of California School District Collective Bargaining Agreements

Educational Administration Quarterly

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 506-547

  Strunk, Katharine O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

collective bargaining agreements; contracts; education policy; educational governance; empirical paper; quantitative analysis; teachers' unions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863330084     PISSN: 0013161X     EISSN: 15523519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013161X11432923     Document Type: Article

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