Böcker av Todd A. DeMitchell

The issue of teacher as a union member and teacher as a professional is explored during the turbulent decade after the Great Recession. These concerns are explored within an historical background, and a legal and labor relations analysis of collective bargaining and teacher unions is employed.

The scope of this book is limited to the critical aspects of an effective documentation system.

This book focuses on preparing for the bargaining table and strategies and approaches for bargaining the contract at the table.

The Challenges of Mandating School Uniforms in the Public Schools: Free Speech, Research, and Policy explores the policy rationale, the constitutional rights of students, and the research on the impact of school uniforms.

Student Dress Codes and the First Amendment: Legal Challenges and Policy Issues explores the legal issues that arise when a school prohibits various types of student attire. Administrators must respect a student's constitutional right to free speech, yet still maintain an environment that is conducive to learning, thus often creating conflicts.

This book explores unions and collective bargaining in the public schools of America. Changes that may move labor relations into professional relations and away from the industrial labor union model and diminish the schism that exists between educators are discussed.

Reasonable and prudent principals must know the law of negligence and apply its theory to the crush of activities and expectations of leading a modern school. This book assists, through case studies, legal analysis, and practical applications, principals to be the legal leader of their school.