DOES TENURE HELP OR HURT OUR KIDS IN SCHOOL? Teachers unions have vigorously defended tenure, seniority and dismissal rules, calling them crucial safeguards and essential to recruiting and retaining quality instructors. The lawsuit, they contend, is misguided and ignores the true causes of problems in education, such as drops in state funding. Attorneys for the plaintiffs, meanwhile, argue laws far exceed reasonable job protections and create an environment in which ineffective teachers are immune to scrutiny and consequences for poor job performance. Many students — overwhelmingly those who are minority and low-income — are destined to suffer from ineffective and unequal instruction because administrators are unable to remove ineffective teachers from schools, attorneys said. SOURCE: latimes/local/lanow/la-me-ln-testimony-trial-california-teachers-job-protections-20140127,0,7111732.story#ixzz2rg58RGbZ
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 08:02:04 +0000
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