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May 28, 2024 · To help journalists cover school board elections, we’ve gathered and summarized six academic studies that look at how school board members are chosen and the impact they can have on school funding and student achievement.
- Multivariate Analysis
- Robustness Tests
- Do Union Endorsements Really Make The difference?
So far, I have presented simple descriptive data, comparing the election outcomes for endorsed and unendorsed candidates over time and across different types of districts. Though the results have begun to tell a story in which teacher-union endorsements are still influential, more elaborate statistical models are needed to firm up these descriptive...
Across both time and geographic space, and irrespective of the prevailing political environment facing unions in education politics at the federal or state level, union-favored school board candidates have continued to do exceptionally well in local school board elections. After accounting for incumbency and the overall competitiveness of the elect...
My findings thus far appear to confirm (and strengthen) Moe’s conclusions from the early 2000s that unions exert significant influence in school board elections. Across time and space, irrespective of the political or geographic environment, union-backed candidates are much more likely to win than their unendorsed counterparts on Election Day. One ...
Oct 27, 2022 · Teachers’ unions attempt to shape the composition of school boards in two basic ways. First, they endorse candidates who they believe will be responsive to their members’ interests. Second, they recruit sympathetic educators and union members to serve on school boards.
Oct 12, 2023 · Case in point: school board elections. Teachers’ unions often wield unequal power in these local elections, mobilizing their members to elect union-endorsed candidates who then become board members with pro-union attitudes on policy issues and collective bargaining.
Sep 16, 2023 · First, despite some recent evidence that union strength has narrowed at the federal and state levels, I show that teachers’ unions remain an influential player in local school politics today. Second, I provide evidence that teachers’ unions are active and influential in elections that occur outside of traditionally strong union states and ...
- michael.hartney@bc.edu
Contrary to some expectations, the Supreme Court’s Janus decision has not reduced union power and influence in school board politics. A full decade after the Tea Party–led union retrenchment movement, union-backed candidates still remain the ones to beat.
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Nov 30, 2023 · This report analyzes the nature of union power in school board elections, and in particular, how unions decide which candidates to support. Its key findings include: Union electioneering success is not simply a product of union mobilization.
