Drawing on Bachrach and Baratz’s first and second faces of interest group power, we explore the relationship between teachers’ union power and reopening decisions during the fall 2020 semester in 250 large districts around the United States. We leverage a self-collected panel data set of reopening decisions coupled with measures of teachers’ union first face power (drawn from social media postings on teachers’ unions’ Facebook pages) and second face power (operationalized as district size, whether the school district negotiates a collective bargaining agreement with the teachers’ union, the length of the collective bargaining agreement, and the amount of revenue raised by the union). We found that school districts where teachers’ unions exhibit strong second face power (but not first face power) were less likely to start the school year with in-person instruction, were less likely to ever open during fall semester with in-person instruction and spent fewer weeks in in-person learning.

利用 Bachrach 和 Baratz 的利益集团权力的第一面和第二面，我们探讨了教师工会权力与 2020 年秋季学期在美国 250 个大区重新开放决策之间的关系。我们利用自行收集的重新开放决策面板数据集，以及教师工会的第一面权力（来自教师工会 Facebook 页面上的社交媒体帖子）和第二面权力（根据学区规模、学区与教师工会谈判集体谈判协议，集体谈判协议的期限以及工会筹集的收入金额）。