In a message dated 1/20/2004 10:11:00 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 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. > This is what Steve Brandt's article says: "â Form a union hall: Individual schools would hire qualified teachers directly from a union hall operated by the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers. Schools would be free to retain teachers they liked but send others back to the hiring hall once their contracts expired." [Doug Mann] Having tenure means that one's contract does not expire, one may not be removed from a particular teaching position except for cause, and the district may not terminate a teachers contact without due process. In other words, a teacher may not be let go or reassigned without cause and without being given the opportunity for a fair and impartial hearing, unless one's teaching position has been eliminated. Jennings proposal to form a union hiring hall, as described in Steve's article, would mean an end to tenure (due process) rights as we know them. I have experience as a union steward, grievance handler, and bargaining committee delegate (in a health care workers union). I have also discussed grievances of Minneapolis Public School teachers related to alleged contract violations, and carefully read relevant parts of the teachers' contract. More than one of those grievances was about tenure rights. One of the tricks I've seen a school principal use to illegally reassign a teacher is to eliminate, then restore a teaching position (from one school year to the next), and then fill that position with a different teacher. -Doug Mann Author of "Flight from Equality: School reform in the US since 1983" 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
