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Teacher tenure is a policy that restricts the ability to fire teachers, requiring a "just cause" rationale for firing. [1] The individual states each have established their own tenure systems. [ 2 ] Tenure provides teachers with protections by making it difficult to fire teachers who earn tenure.
Under the tenure systems adopted by many universities and colleges in the United States and Canada, some faculty positions have tenure and some do not. Typical systems (such as the widely adopted "1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure" of the American Association of University Professors [5]) allow only a limited period to establish a record of published research, ability ...
Public Act 96–0889, which was signed into law in the spring of 2010, adds a new section to the Pension Code that applies different benefits to anyone who first contributes to TRS on or after January 1, 2011, and does not have previous service credit with a pension system that has reciprocal rights with TRS.
With former teacher Gov. Tim Walz rounding out the Democratic ticket, education could become a talking point in this election. Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump has laid out his ...
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The original form of academic tenure was removed in the United Kingdom in 1988 through the Education Reform Act. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In its place, there is the distinction between permanent and temporary contracts for academics.
Jacqueline Barbara Vaughn (née Robinson; July 27, 1935 – January 22, 1994) was an American Chicago Public Schools special education teacher and labor leader.Vaughn is noted as the first African-American and first woman to serve as president of the Chicago Teachers Union, the nation's third largest teachers union local from August 1984 until her death in January 1994.