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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.
The period since 1972 has seen a steady decline in the percentage (although not the numbers) of college and university teaching positions in the US that are either tenured or tenure-track. United States Department of Education statistics put the combined tenured/tenure-track rate at 56% for 1975, 46.8% for 1989, and 31.9% for 2005.
About a decade ago, several states sought to reform teacher tenure by extending the probationary period, but in recent years the push has been more muted as other education battles took the forefront.
StudentsFirst is a political lobbying organization formed in 2010 by Michelle Rhee, former school chancellor of Washington D.C. public schools, in support of education reform. [1] The organization worked to pass state laws on issues such as expanding charter schools and teacher tenure reform.
Indiana Senate Bill 202, which aims to reform tenure process at Indiana universities, passed the House along party lines, 67-30. Indiana tenure reform bill, Senate Bill 202, passes state House ...
Three years to five years was instead suggested as a better time frame to make the tenure decision for the mutual benefit of students and teachers. [21] Surveying tenure periods in other U.S. states, the court found that as of the trial (January 27 to March 27, 2014) [22] 4 states had no tenure system at all, 9 states had tenure periods of four ...
In 2009, when New York state Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan said that she had been prevented by a hip injury from introducing a measure to form a commission to study teacher-tenure reform—which the UFT had agreed to as a compromise measure—the New York Post editorialized that the legislative inaction which resulted "ha[d] the United ...
Sen. Mike Rounds has introduced a bill to abolish the Department of Education he’s calling the “Returning Education to Our States Act.” The South Dakota Republican’s bill, S.5384, was read ...