Maine's school boards are being urged to eliminate seniority clauses from teachers» contracts as the result of a state high - court decision, handed down this summer, that state law does not protect tenured teachers at the expense of nontenured teachers in layoff decisions. (edweek.org)
Majority - white schools in Minnesota have half as many nontenured teachers as schools with large numbers of black, Asian, Hispanic or American Indian students, according to the Department of Education. (e4e.org)
(It is relatively easy for administrators to dismiss nontenured teachers, without overtly citing their sexual orientation). (gse.harvard.edu)