Leading the Way for 150 Years
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Leading the Way for 150 Years
1857 NEA founded in Philadelphia as National Teachers Association.
1861 Kansas becomes 34th state.
Early SchoolsKansas constitution
recognizes state responsibility for a uniform system of schools.
Schools established by county superintendentswithin “walking distance” of students.
Kansas State Teachers Association
Founded 1863, just a few weeks after the Battle of Gettysburg.
Founded by education leaders to support public schools.
KSTA Founders
Isaac Goodnow, one of the founders of Bluemont College now known as Kansas State University.
KSTA Founders
Peter McVicar, President of Washburn Universityfor 25 years.
KSTA Founders
H.D. McCarty, Leavenworth County Superintendent of Schools and a staunch proponent of teaching black children to read.
State SuperintendentsIsaac Goodnow, H.D. McCarty, and
Peter McVicar each served as Kansas State Superintendent of Public Instruction. They were true giants of Kansas education.
The TeachersIn the 1860’s, teachers
prove their qualifications by writing their names, reading a paragraph from a newspaper, and answering an oral question or two.
The Students
1874: Students ages 8 – 14 required to attend school during the 3 to 4 month school year.
The FundingMoney from the sale of school lands
(sections 16 and 36 of most townships) and from the estates of persons dying without heirs established a school fund to support common schools.
There was also a 1-mill statewide property tax for schools.
1879 Loss of FundingLegislative battles between Western
and Eastern interests result in loss of statewide property tax for schools.
Funding for all schools not restored until the middle of the 20th century.
What happened to the money?
1879 Loss of FundingLegislature continues to collect the
taxes and the money is used to build the west wing of the Capitol.
The Courts
1896: in Plessy vs. Ferguson the Supreme Court rules that “separate but equal” schools are allowed.
The School Districts
9,284 Kansas school districts because each one-room school was a separate district.
1896
The NEA1903
NEA initiates a nationwide program to enhance the economic conditions of teachers, including tenure and pensions.
NEA is 50 years old with 5,044 members.
High School Funding
County officials given the authority to levy local property taxes to establish rural high schools.
1905
NEA Advocacy
NEA votes to support the fight for Women’s Suffrage
1912
The Association
KSTA becomes third state Association in the nation to establish a state headquarters with a full time Executive Secretary.
1914
State Department of Education
State Department of Education established to improve schools.
1915
State Department of Education
Legislature allows county superintendents to hold institutes (in-service) of one to four weeks; teachers required to attend are critical of institute quality.
1915
The State of Kansas
Kansas State Reading Circle (a KSTA subsidiary) authorized by the legislature; law required schools to expend “not less than $5 per teacher to purchase books for library.”
1926
Kansas State Reading Circle
Initially KSTA members read and recommended books.
For over 50 years KSTA also sold the books.
Kansas State Reading Circle
Kansas State Reading Circle
Today’s KNEA Reading Circle members make recommendations to schools and libraries.
Growing Teacher Participation in KSTA Leadership
New KSTA constitution requires one-third of board members to be classroom teachers.
1936
The State of Kansas
Legislature passes state aid for all elementary schools following intensive lobbying by KSTA.
1937
NEA AdvocacyKate Frank
Muskogee, OK, teacher and
member activist
Leader in attempting to unseat BOE members in 1942.
Fired 1942; reinstated with NEA’s support, 1945.
NEA AdvocacyFollowing Kate Frank’s dismissal, NEA President Donald DuShane created a committee to investigate violations and support member rights.
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$10,000 was set aside for legal defense.
The $10,000 Defense
$10,000 in 1942 equals $143,433 in 2013.
$948.39 was left after Kate Frank’s reinstatement to start NEA’s DuShane Fund for Teacher Rights.
The Kansas Connection
NEA’s Kate Frank/DuShane Fund underwrites KNEA’s legal assistance to members and local associations to this day.
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Leading the Profession
KSTA adopts standards for membership – 60 hour teaching certificate by 1952 and degree by 1957. Current members were grandparented into membership.
1951
Following KSTA
Following KSTA’s lead, the State Board of Education sets 60-hour requirement for teaching certificate but delays degree requirement until 1959.
1952
Funding for High Schools
Century-long aggressive lobbying by KSTA pays off with state funding for high schools, BUT. . . . .
1954
There Had Been Consequences
The legislature condemned the newly renovated KSTA headquarters which stood across the street from the Capitol.
1953
KSTA Headquarters
$2 per member annually for 9 years
OLD 1954 NEW
By the WayThe “reason” for the
condemnation of the KSTA headquarters was the state’s need for land to build on. Almost 20 years later the state erected the Justice Center at that location.
U.S. Supreme Court
1954, the court overturns “separate but equal” doctrine for schools in Brown vs. Board of Education.
School Unification 1963
Kansas Supreme Court upholds unification law to replace elementary, common, and rural high school districts with comprehensive K-12 districts.
Death threats and law suits fail to derail implementation.
School Unification Impact
Number of school districts reduced to 348 although the law did not require individual school closings.
Today fewer than 290 USDs.
Increasing Member Involvement1960’s
Kansas Student NEA
KSTA Regional training
Association Changes
1960’s and 1970’sTeacher members take control of
KNEA Board of Directors.KNEA president becomes a full-
time position.
KNEA Leadership Changes
1990
KNEA vice president becomes a full-time position.
Governance of the Profession
1969 Kansas legislature enacts first Professional Teaching Practices Act giving teachers a state-level legal voice to recommend and enforce professional standards.
Governance of the Profession
Today teachers are a majority on both the Professional Practices Commission and the Standards Board. Both groups are advisory to the State Board of Education.
Governance of the Profession
KNEA provides on-going support to KNEA members serving on state commissions and committees.
KSTA representative assembly votes to change the name to Kansas-NEA (vote of 184 to 181.)
Name Change 1969
KNEA RA emphatically resolves to make a negotiations bill its top priority in the 1970 legislative session.
Priorities 1969
UniServ: A New Program for A New Time
First NEA UniServ District in the US is established in Lindsborg, Kansas, serving a 60 x 60 mile area (UD 114 now includes this area.)
In 2012-13, KNEA has 18 UniServ districts providing services to 23,000 plus members.
UniServ 2013
Negotiations StatuteKNEA lobbying succeeds and
legislature adopts Professional Negotiations Act in 1970.
First local affiliate to receive recognition to negotiate is the St. John City Teachers Association.
Negotiations Challenges
Battles are fought by local leaders, local associations and KNEA to make the negotiations law meaningful.
Numerous court cases required.
Teachers Fired for Bargaining
Liberal, Kansas, Board of Education non-renews Oleta Peters and Lila Epperson who attempted to negotiate under the new law.
KNEA defends teachers, who are re-instated by the Kansas Supreme Court in 1978.
More Teachers Fired for Bargaining
Coffeyville Board of Education non-renews five teachers on the negotiations team. (Case settles out of court in 1975, but only two teachers choose to return to the district.)KNEA provided defense.
Hiawatha NEA President Testifies for
Changes in PN Law
Changes to the Negotiations Law
At KNEA and local association urging, impasse resolution procedures requiring mediation and fact-finding added to PNA (by 1980).
Changes to the Negotiations Law
Decisions by the Department of Human Resources (now Department of Labor) and the Kansas courts over four decades establish and clarify the implementation of the negotiations law.
Changes/Clarifications Negotiations Law
Mandatory and permissive topics further clarified (Chee-Craw and Shawnee Mission cases)
Local association may demand that changes in mandatory topics be bargained even if they are not included in current negotiated agreement. (Dodge City and Wichita)
Changes/Clarifications Negotiations Law
Hours and amounts of work include number of teaching periods in a day (Dodge City and Wichita cases)
Courts Impact Negotiations Law
Local association may not bargain away the right of employees to resign or refuse supplemental contracts. (Swanson case)
Courts Impact Negotiations Law
“Supplemental” duties defined by nature of the work not the time of day the work is performed. (Hachiya-Livingston case)
Courts Impact Negotiations Law
Evaluation procedure is mandatorily negotiable while criteria is permissive. (Brewster case)
Courts Impact Negotiations Law
“Good faith” in negotiations defined in case from Hays.
Includes making proposals and counter proposals as well as indicating why a proposal is unacceptable or could be changed to become acceptable.
Changes in How We Negotiate
Initially, positional negotiations with one spokesperson for each side.
Late 1980’s, KNEA began to explore Win/Win or Interest-based Bargaining
More collaborativeMore individuals speaking and
participating
P.I.C.K.Kansas-NEA and the Kansas
Association of School Administrators collaborated at the beginning of this century to create Partners in Collaboration Kansas.
P.I.C.K.P.I.C.K. trained teams of facilitators to
train/assist BOE and teacher teams in collaborative bargaining.
Each two-person team included an administrator and a teacher.
Success of the Law
According to KNEA General Counsel David Schauner, over 11,000 contracts have been negotiated under the law since 1970.
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Success of the LawFewer than twenty (20) unilateral
contracts have been issued by Boards of Education after the parties failed to reach agreement.
Teacher Due Process1973 Teacher Due Process Act:
after two years in a district teachers must be given reasons for non-renewal.
Hearing panel recommendations are advisory only.
Court Clarifies Due Process Law
1983: In the Coats case, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that teachers with due process rights have precedence over those who do not.
This decision “put the teeth” into the due process law.
Court Clarifies Due Process Law
.Leota Coats, long-time association activist, stood up for teacher rights
Courts Allow Teachers to Resign
SupplementalsSupplemental (coaching and activity)
contracts are separate from primary contracts and may be resigned (Swager case).
Teacher Due Process1984 - 1992
Much court and legislative action follow on this topic. By 1992 due process rights are granted after 3 years, AND the decision is binding on the Board of Education.
KNEA Leads Way on Collaboration
1986
KNEA provides $10,000 which the legislature matches for pilot projects on faculty collaboration.
KNEA Leads Way on Collaboration
1986
Pilot projects with elementary schools were implemented by Circle NEA, Manhattan NEA, Hutchinson NEA and Junction City NEA.
Keeping Your License 1981 – 1985
State Board of Education allows professional development points as well as college hours for renewal of teaching certificates.
Improving Negotiated Agreements
Local associations begin to bargain credit for PDC points on salary schedules.
Licensure System Changes
2003Local Professional Development
Councils take on new roles in approving professional development used to renew licenses.
KNEA AND PDCs
2001 to 2013Before changes implemented,
KNEA designs KSDE-approved training for local PDCs.
Collaborates with Greenbush Service Center to deliver training.
The Year They Stopped Laughing
When: 1976
Who: Legislators
Why: KNEA members very successful in elections.
The Year They Stopped Laughing
How: KNEA trained members as political action coordinators and activists in the late ‘60’s and early ‘70’s.
Before They Stopped Laughing
KNEA helped defeat the powerful Majority Leader of the Senate. (1970)
Helped elect a governor.(1974)
The Year They Stopped Laughing
Chief strategist Bob Wootton, KNEA President Dorothy Steele, and PAC
chair Millard Denny
The Year They Finally Stopped Laughing
1976
KNEA endorsed and helped elect 10 challengers of Senate incumbents.
The Year They Finally Stopped Laughing
1976KNEA helped change the majority in the Kansas House for the first time since early in the century.
1976 to 2010Years of Success
KNEA members helped elect numerous friends of education and of working people to the Kansas House and Senate.
1976 to 2010Years of Success
KNEA members helped elect several governors.
KNEA members helped elect reasonable members of the State Board of Education.
Governor Carlin signs amendments to the
PN ActKNEA President Jim Lewis and KNEA staff observe.
Winners!5 of 6 winners in statewide races and a 70% record in the legislative races.
KNEA members worked hard.
Friends in High PlacesCongressman Dan Glickman and Secretary of State Jack Brier visit with South Central members in the Haysville UniServ Office.
We rallied when it was cold. . .
We rallied when it was hot. . .
We got together and planned. . .
Board members, UniServ leaders, KPAC members, and staff
The Year They Decided to Get Even
2012 elections were difficult for all moderate candidates and many KNEA recommended candidates lost.
The Year They Decided to Get Even
Legislation attacked bargaining, payroll dues deduction, due process, and KPERS.
The Year They Decided to Get Even
Payroll deduction for voluntary political contributions is gone.
The Year They Decided to Get Even
Collective bargaining is in a study committee (thanks to tireless work by KNEA members, leaders, and staff).
KNEA Members and Staff pack hearings
The Year They Decided to Get Even
KPERS is in yet another study committee.
Due process changes likely to be considered in 2013.
2013
Celebrating 150 years of educators from all institutions working together for great Kansas public schools.
2013One of the most challenging years
in our history.Education “reform”Hostile LegislatureInsufficient school funding
2013
The year we start constructing our future – and the future of Kansas public schools.
2013Pride
CommitmentConfidenceOur StudentsOur SchoolsOur Association