Janice L. Herman

What are the important aspects of collective bargaining at the local school district level? Beginning with a discussion on how administrators and employees live and work together in the school district environment, Herman succinctly details the strategies, tasks, events, and influences that affect the collective bargaining process. These details range from the initial certification election of a union to the preparation for, negotiation of, and administration of a union/management collective bargaining agreement.

Considering the crucial role of funding in education today, it is imperative that educators understand the budgeting process thoroughly. By presenting an overview of the basics of financial matters that affect school districts and individual school buildings, this highly practical book spells out the methodology, individual roles, and rationale for site-based budgeting and describes the relationship between central and site levels. It discusses income, expenditures, and accounting responsibilities, and emphasizes the opportunity and obligations of the administration, faculty, staff, school site councils, and central district officials related to the total budgeting, expenditure, and control processes.

A useful road map to help implement the quality concept in the educational environment... The authors do an excellent job of unifying the concepts of TQM, effective schools, OBE, and shared decision making.