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| SENIORITY THE NEXT TARGET OF REFORMERS; Education Action Group | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 4 2011, 05:01 PM (254 Views) | |
| LPS Reformer | Jul 4 2011, 05:01 PM Post #1 |
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The schools exist to educate, not employ.
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SENIORITY THE NEXT TARGET OF REFORMERS Knollenberg's legislative victory wasn't the only good news coming out of Lansing last week. Last Thursday, House lawmakers voted to end the nonsensical “last in, first out” policy school districts use when determining teacher layoffs. Reformers have long questioned why union seniority rules should force districts into laying off its young, dynamic teachers and into keeping veteran teachers who may have decided to phone it in until their pension activates. The House also voted to raise the bar on granting teacher tenure, and created a system that makes it somewhat easier for ineffective teachers to be removed from the classroom. Under this possible law, it would take five years for a probationary teacher to be granted tenure, provided that the teacher was rated “effective or better on the three most recent annual evaluations,” reports The Grand Rapids Press. Young teachers who receive “effective” evaluations during their first three years could gain tenure early. On the flip side, a tenured teacher could be downgraded to probationary status after “two years of being rated ineffective,” the paper reports. Probationary teachers could be dismissed without cause. We suspect most taxpayers would support amending teacher tenure so that dismissing an ineffective teacher is not a full-blown financial and bureaucratic nightmare for a school district. Granted, these bills have only cleared the first hurdles in the legislative process, but it seems that Michigan’s public schools are on the brink of an exciting new era in which student needs – and not union special interests – take priority. |
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