Recent legal actions in a few states have raised larger questions about
the future of teacher tenure policies.
February 16, 2015 (New York)-- As school districts, education leaders and New York's courts debate
the future of teacher tenure, Educators 4 Excellence — New York (E4E) members today issued a series of recommendations to preserve job protections but make tenure designations more meaningful.
Not exact matches
The discussions about the
future of teacher evaluation and
teacher tenure are going to pick up speed all over the country and the origins are going to turn out to be in Race to the Top....
Because a
tenure decision involves thousands
of future students as well as
future colleagues and supervisors at other schools in a district where a
teacher might work, it makes no sense to leave the decision in the hands
of their current supervisor alone.
Few analyses have been conducted on past state efforts to overhaul
teacher -
tenure policies, concludes a report that recommends ways states, districts, and unions might approach the issue
of tenure reform in the
future.
The appeal decision will be closely watched throughout the state and beyond, as the
future of California's
teacher employment laws surrounding
tenure, seniority and dismissal hang in the balance.
He later served as a
tenured professor
of educational administration at California State University, Dominguez Hills in Los Angeles, and was Director
of the
Future Teacher Institute and National Director
of the Consortium for Minorities in Teaching Careers.
The controversies
of teacher tenure are likely to be a part
of education reform in the
future.
Remember when Charlie Crist sold out the
future of Florida's school children by vetoing a school reform bill that would have introduced merit pay and tweaked
tenure in order to curry favor with that state's powerful
teachers union in the hopes that they would aid him in his race for the Senate?