Education Action Group has produced an eye-opening chart illustrating the torturous, time-consuming and expensive process New Jersey schools must follow when attempting to fire a tenured teacher for “inefficiency, incapacity, conduct unbecoming or other just cause.”
EAG created this chart after consulting with James Smith, the executive director of school security for Paterson, NJ [...]
New Jersey Tenure chart - PDF
Blog entry puts union’s foot in its mouth, exposes self-serving attitude
Teacher union leaders have been known to bark back when their strongest job protection – tenure – is referred to as a job for life.
Typical rebuttals include: “It’s a necessary protection from overzealous administrators,” or “it’s critical to maintain academic freedom.”
But in [...]
Americans are finally accepting the fact that the nation’s public education system is deeply flawed.
And a new poll reveals that the public is ready to embrace a logical compromise that would effectively address the problem – do away with tenure protection for bad teachers and provide higher salaries for good teachers.
According to [...]
