New Attitudes Shaping Labor-District Relations.

The article discusses the educational cooperation between U.S. school boards and teachers' unions, focusing on the efforts of Alan J. Ingram, the superintendent of the Springfield, Massachusetts public schools, and Timothy T. Collins, a member of the district's budget advisory committee. Topics include the funding of educational change by the National Education Association (NEA), the support of teachers' unions to improve teacher quality, and their related collective bargaining relations.