For consideration by the Minneapolis School Board at its regular session on July 13, 2004 ----------------------------------- Whereas the district's leadership is planning to cut 210.8 teacher positions and has laid off 608.0 teachers, and
Whereas the district is cutting nearly 213.8 teacher positions in program 200, K-12 allocations for regular instruction and adding a few teacher positions in other areas, and Whereas, as many as 196 high-seniority, elementary grade teachers certified to work in areas of need will be bumped out of their positions, and Whereas the district has taken steps to guarantee the lowest-seniority elementary school teachers that they will be back on the payroll and in elementary teaching positions next fall, and Whereas the district has fired and plans to rehire low-seniority teachers in the elementary grades as elementary grade teachers, and Whereas low-seniority elementary teachers might otherwise be forced to bid on jobs that come open in other areas (mostly in middle schools, high school and special education), and Whereas experienced teachers in areas of need are to be replaced by teachers with no recent experience in areas to which they will be assigned in order to preserve the jobs of lower seniority teachers, and Whereas predictable effects of the realignment process include lower quality instruction and greater declines in enrollment, Therefore be it resolved that all of termination notices and job realignments affecting teachers are rescinded, and the administration will proceed in the following manner to excess and lay off teachers: First, notify teachers who jobs may be excessed that their jobs might be excessed. Those excessed teachers should then bid for any jobs that are coming open due to retirements, quits, and firings for cause. Then the district administration should carefully consider replacing teachers in other areas who are lower on the seniority list with excessed teachers. Only as a last resort should the district carefully consider the replacement of teachers in high needs areas with teachers with more seniority than the teachers who are being excessed. The district will not terminate the employment of teachers in high need areas with teachers who merely possess a license to practice in another area, especially when a teacher with more than one year of experience in a particular area would be replaced by a teacher with no recent experience (recent defined as within the past five years) in the area to which they are to be transferred. -Doug Mann, King Field www.educationright.com 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
