Baltimore Teachers Union, Maryland

• School improvement teams will choose from the approved systemwide menu of activities that best meet the needs of students and teachers at each school
• Describes the CEO's district, including teacher incentives and professional development

Duval Teachers United, Florida

• Joint labor-management committee to oversee requests for contract waivers necessary for school improvement programs
• Defines union representation on new and innovative programs committee
• Establishes procedures for critically low-performing schools including transfers and performance pay

Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, Pennsylvania

• Establishes labor-management partnership to improve middle schools

Pinellas Classroom Teachers Association, Florida

• If a school adopts an innovative program, teachers who desire to keep their former status in the same school may request to do so or be allowed to transfer
• Any major innovation program or experiment will be in effect for a reasonable period of time before being expanded to other schools

Providence Teachers Union, Rhode Island

• Each school has a school improvement team (SIT) made up of union, district, and community representation

Rochester Teachers Association, New York

• Board and union agree to cooperate in the implementation of innovative programs, to participate in school-based planning at each school, and to establish smaller schools and schools-within-schools
• Union representation on superintendent's strategic review team
• School accountability system includes incentives, interventions, and sanctions

United Educators of San Francisco, California

• District and union working together to reduce the need for reconstitution by implementing a standards-based accountability system
• Restructured schools will use one of three options for operating shared decision making programs
• Restructuring will not be imposed but allowed to evolve on a voluntary basis
• Labor and management serve on the restructuring council to develop goals/procedures for restructuring, promote site-based decision-making, and provide guidance on restructuring plans.