If it is successful, the Vergara case will
eliminate some teacher tenure protections, limit seniority, and diminish collective bargaining rights.
Nearly 4 of 5 Tuck supporters, 79 percent, said they wanted to
eliminate teacher tenure protections while 69 percent of Torlakson voters said preserving due process protection was a higher priority.
Not exact matches
While we certainly see the strong benefit of offering job security for teaching - track faculty (and recognize that higher levels of job
protections likely attracts more excellent
teachers to the university), giving them de facto
tenure would
eliminate this important lever for department chairs, deans and provosts.
Tenure reform should balance the benefits of using this
protection to attract and retain good
teachers with the costs it imposes by making it more difficult to
eliminate bad
teachers.
Scott Smith, a third - year English
teacher at Seneca Valley High School in Germantown, said the
tenure protections that he won last year
eliminated a source of stress.
While this brief focuses on Act 10's impact on Wisconsin
teachers based on the data available, the same forces driving changes in the teaching workforce can also affect the broader public sector.3 Proponents of Act 10 insisted that reducing collective bargaining rights for
teachers would improve education by
eliminating job
protections such as
tenure and seniority - based salary increases.
So, Mr. Cunningham, thanks again for all that you and Education Post do to «honor
teachers for the work they do every day as professionals», and shining the bright reformer spotlight on the serious problems in public education today — by attacking unions, working to
eliminate teacher tenure and job
protections, and supporting the proliferation of for - profit charter schools (under the guise of «school choice») that under - perform and siphon money away from public schools.