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May 28, 2024 · To help journalists contextualize coverage of school board elections, we spotlight research on who votes in these elections, the role of teachers unions and how new board members can influence school segregation, funding and test scores.
Oct 27, 2022 · Teachers’ unions dominate local school board elections: they win seven out of 10 races. Union support makes the difference for incumbents as well as challengers and is often more powerful than the incumbency advantage. Nonpartisan elections enable union-favored candidates to win board seats in deep blue as well as deep red communities.
- 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 ...
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.
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
Nov 7, 2023 · The findings about teachers’ union endorsements “support our conclusion that school boards are potentially an important causal channel through which teachers’ unions exert influence,”...
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Second, I provide evidence that teachers’ unions are active and influential in elections that occur outside of traditionally strong union states and prolabor school districts.
