on 1/20/04 10:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One > of > Jennings' solutions is to eliminate teacher tenure rights - all teachers will > be on probationary status for as long as they are employed with the district, > not just their first three years. When teachers lose their tenure rights, > they have no rights that the district has to respect. If teachers lose their > seniority rights, the management style throughout the district will more > closely > resemble that of a banana republic (more favoritism, arbitrariness, and > corruption) than it already does.
Doug - what is the source for this? The Strib story says nothing about "permanent" probation for teachers. As I read Steve Brandt's piece, Jennings wants to give individual schools/principals/site councils more control over who teaches there. The story says nothing about teachers losing their district-wide tenure, however. Individual-school hiring does beg the question about what the district does with teacher no school wants to hire, or every school throws back. Anyway, since the Strib didn't report the permanent probation proposal, I'm wondering where it came from. David Brauer Kingfield REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
