"Teacher tenure" refers to a job security system in education where teachers are given permanent contracts after a probationary period. It means that once a teacher has obtained tenure, they cannot be easily fired or dismissed, except for serious reasons like misconduct or poor performance.
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teacher tenure laws are not a job guarantee but rather protection against arbitrary or politically motivated maltreatment.
He said the state simply prohibits the linking of student data to decisions
on teacher tenure, not teacher effectiveness.
Public support remains as high as ever for federally mandated testing, charter schools, tax credits to support private school choice, merit pay for teachers, and
teacher tenure reform.
With so much talk about
teacher tenure in K - 12 schools, it's easy to overlook the fact that there's another tenure debate going on in higher education.
If you thought charter schools and
ending teacher tenure were controversial fixes for the American school system, see what happens you bring up the idea of educating boys and girls separately.
When respondents are told how their local schools rank either in the state or country, support
for teacher tenure falls even further, dropping by 6 or 8 percentage points, respectively.
Early, irreversible decisions
about teacher tenure have real costs for students and ultimately all of society.
The original plan combined tax changes aimed at generating almost $ 500 million in new state revenue with school reforms in such areas
as teacher tenure.
The other thing that's an obvious connection here is thinking about the recent debate over
teacher tenure policy which has been in the courts.
Use teacher evaluations to
make teacher tenure decisions, with teachers granted tenure after receiving two Highly Effective or three Effective ratings within a five - year period.
Current state law requires public schools to either grant
teachers tenure after two years or terminate them after the second year.
The governor would also
tie teacher tenure to the evaluations, granting it only after five years of effective ratings.
Yet a number of proposals to reform
teacher tenure at the state level have emerged during the past 20 years.
Education reform issues
like teacher tenure, teacher certification, teacher evaluations, early childhood education, charter schools, school funding and more need input from all educators.
Just about the same percentage of voters
say teacher tenure should not be based on test scores either.
Forty - three percent of respondents said they somewhat support or strongly support
teacher tenure practices, and nearly the same amount said they somewhat oppose or strongly oppose them.
Check out views from teachers and advocates who want to see
teacher tenure preserved and elevated as an important professional milestone.
You need choice — accountable and transparent of course — just like you
need teacher tenure and evaluation reform.
Support for
teacher tenure slides, but the percentage of the public thinking teachers deserve a salary increase reaches its highest level since 2008.
Moreover, there was no direct correspondence between a teacher's ratings on the checklist and the overall evaluation rating, which
determined teacher tenure.
Boards of education also are bound by laws such as the property tax act, election code,
teacher tenure act, state school aid act, child protection law and employment laws.
But the real take - away from this moment at the debate is how it
reveals teacher tenure to be a fundamentally politically issue.
The issue
of teacher tenure, or «continuing contracts,» has received less attention despite its potential importance to efforts to improve teacher quality.
According to media reports, he is the only Democratic governor in the nation who has proposed doing away
with teacher tenure and eliminating collective bargaining for teachers in the lowest - performing schools.
The big stuff like linking teacher salaries to student academic performance and
eliminating teacher tenure was voted on in other states.
Without test - score information, performance - based pay and
teacher tenure reform will become next to impossible to execute.
At the same time they were pursuing tougher evaluations, reformers looked to the courts to loosen the city's
teacher tenure protections.
We would hope, for example, that the measures used to
make teacher tenure decisions are good predictors of how teachers will perform in the years after they receive tenure.
Until we get much better at capturing the nuances of such a performance, we should be wary of attempts to
tie teacher tenure and compensation to student test scores.
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