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Degree

Doctor of Education, Ashland University, College of Education, 2010.

Abstract

This study compares the succession of urban principals working under negotiated collective bargaining agreements and conferred “memorandums of understanding” with particular school boards in three of Ohio's major cities: Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Toledo. Relying on the following information: tenure, licensure status, professional experience, and gender, as predictive indicators of individual principal movement, isolating common factors of those moved over a five year period, utilizing the Ohio Department of Education public access data base as the primary source of information to verify stability as one advantage of collective bargaining.

Subject Headings

School administration

Keywords

urban schools; school reform; principal turnover; principal succession; collective bargaining; Ohio schools; school administration; unionization; leadership

Committee / Advisors

Harold Wilson, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Ann Shelly, Ph.D. (Committee Co-Chair)
Larry Cook, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Robert Shelly, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
James Van Keuren, Ed.D. (Committee Member)

Pages

95p.

Document number: ashland1273076220
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