The Ruiz tenure bill, which contains provisions that have also been proposed by Christie and Cerf, would:
Not exact matches
For instance, where
Ruiz's
bill would remove a teacher's
tenure after two years of poor evaluations, Diegnan's
bill would only trigger possible
tenure charges after two years and compels them after three years.
While both
bills would tie
tenure directly to teacher evaluations, Diegnan's
bill wouldn't go quite as far as
Ruiz's and would give teachers greater protections and grounds to appeal.
State Sen. Teresa
Ruiz (D - Essex), the architect of the new law, initially proposed allowing teachers who had
tenure before the effective date of the
bill to keep seniority rights.
Ruiz's
bill would do away with the current system that grants
tenure automatically after three years.
Many legislative leaders and observers have predicted the
bill will pass in some form this year, and Gov. Chris Christie has repeatedly called
tenure reform a core priority of his education agenda, even offering general praise of
Ruiz's
bill.
Who's in, who's out:
Ruiz's latest
bill remains largely unchanged in that teachers would receive
tenure after three years of «effective» or «highly effective» evaluations by a panel of teachers and administrators in each school.