Staffing policies in times of retrenchment
Teacher opinions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11257000 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William T Phelan (University of Massachusetts Lowell, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 37-48 |
| Publication date | 1983-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Peabody Journal of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0161-956X • E-ISSN: 1532-7930 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01619568309538394 |
| OpenAlex | W2021262935 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
they try to develop orderly mechanisms of contraction. The likelihood of mandated budget cuts in addition to decreased enrollments have dashed the optimism of many educators that normal attrition (through retirements, resignations, or deaths) would take care of position cuts. For many school districts, the 1980s have ushered in a period of forced layoffs. As a result, the questions and issues discussed in the paper have become all the more pressing. On what bases will staff be retained or released? Should the more senior teachers be kept while their younger, less experienced colleagues are let go? How will teachers respond to the process of involuntary staff reductions, commonly called reduction-in-force or RIF? These questions are of more than passing interest to the thousands of Massachusetts teachers who received layoff notices during the Spring of 1981, to the administrators who made the critical decisions on the number and identity of those notified, and to the parents and pupils who, along with many educators, are justifiably dismayed at the entire proceedings. As illustrated by one Massachusetts school district, called Miltown1, RIFing can create a whole set of problems yet to be resolved. Miltown's collective bargaining agreement states that six criteria should be applied
Attrition · Collective bargaining · Economic growth · Economics · Layoff · Political science · Public relations · Retrenchment · Staffing · Unemployment · Education Systems and Policy · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Public Administration · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1983 - 1985 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |