Teachers' Union Power in a Budget Crunch: Lasting Ramifications of Differential Spending Responses to the Great Recession

Autor/inn/en	Swain, Walker A.; Redding, Christopher
Titel	Teachers' Union Power in a Budget Crunch: Lasting Ramifications of Differential Spending Responses to the Great Recession
Quelle	In: Educational Policy, 36 (2022) 2, S.343-376 (34 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Swain, Walker A.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0895-9048
DOI	10.1177/0895904819881161
Schlagwörter	Unions; Budgeting; Retrenchment; Economic Climate; Educational Finance; Public Education; State Aid; Financial Support; Collective Bargaining; State Legislation; Elementary Secondary Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wirtschaftslage; Bildungsfonds; Öffentliche Erziehung; Finanzielle Förderung; Tarifverhandlung; Landesrecht
Abstract	In the wake of the 2007 housing crash and subsequent economic recession, state legislatures across the country faced substantial declines in revenues, and by 2011, for the first time in more than a decade, average spending on education declined. However, states' budgetary responses to the Great Recession were decidedly uneven, with some making lasting cuts to public education. This article uses longitudinal data on state-level educational spending, politics, demographics, economic well-being, and a unique set of union strength indicators to assess the strength of teachers' unions as advocates for education spending by examining their role in states' varied budgetary responses to the Great Recession. We find that states with laws prohibiting collective bargaining for teachers and states with lower union dues per teacher made substantially larger cuts to overall educational expenditures, even after controlling for time-invariant state characteristics, secular trends, and an extensive set of time-variant state-level covariates. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01