TEACHER-TENURE TRAP
"It's true across many school districts in America, and it's an especially egregious problem in New York. The fact is, we simply reward time served, as opposed to performance -- whether it's seniority-based firing, whether it's the lack of merit pay or whether it's the essentially automatic granting of tenure at the end of three years.
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten seems to think she deserves some kind of medal for even allowing a commission to study tenure to come into existence -- even though it was her goons who got the commission killed last year. And even though the whole idea of a commission itself was just a lame compromise when her union pushed a bill through Albany last year banning school districts from using student-testing data to determine whether teachers should be given lifetime job security.
But it really doesn't matter whether this commission comes into existence: It would be a creature of Albany, and the lawmakers there are Randi's puppets. Like the clowns on the City Council education committee, they read her cue cards"
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