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Subj: Resolution on layoffs & realignment
Date: 7/10/2004 10:55:54 PM Central Daylight Time
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From: Doug Mann
To: Minneapolis School Board members
CC: Minneapolis issues list & www.educationright.com
The best interests of MPS students and public education in MN are not served
by excessive layoffs and a realignment process that is certain to reduce the
quality of education provided by the Minneapolis Public Schools and motivate
more parents to pull their children out of district-run schools. Corrective
action is urgently needed
Please consider passing the following resolution at the next regularly
scheduled public board meeting on July 13, 2004
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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 213.8 teacher positions in program 200, K-12
allocations for regular instruction, and is adding a few teacher positions in
other areas, and
Whereas the district is planning to offer to rehire at least 398 teachers,
creating a potential for shortages of minimally qualified teachers in some areas
and a poor match up of skills needed and skills possessed by the teachers
available to fill them, and
Whereas the district has fired and plans to rehire low-seniority teachers in
the elementary grades as elementary grade teachers next fall, 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 order to preserve the jobs of lower seniority,
elementary teachers, 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 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affecting teachers are rescinded, and the administration will proceed in the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.
And be it further resolved that the district will not terminate the
employment of teachers in high need areas and replace them with teachers who merely
possess a license to practice in another area, and does not have more than one
year of recent experience ("recent experience" defined as at least one year of
experience within the past five years) in the area to which they are to be
transferred.
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-Doug Mann, King Field
www.educationright.com
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