“NC Senate wants merit pay, end to tteacher tenure”
The plan would change the state’s current system of grading school districts based on their performance on end-of-grade and end-of-course scores to traditional grading of A’s to F’s. |
[No, I didn't mistype the title. It was probably typed by a graduate of NC's tenured teacher system. Ed.]
The Charlotte Observer:
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s public school teachers would see employment tenure eliminated, but become eligible for performance bonuses under an education reform package rolled out Monday by Senate Republicans.The public school initiatives were unveiled by Senate leader Phil Berger, who said most of the ideas should draw broad support because they are designed to make students better equipped to graduate from high school and avoid costly remedial classes at universities and community colleges. …
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The proposal would do away with tenure to veteran public schools teachers who now receive their permanent teaching license after a four-year probationary period. The current policy makes it difficult to fire the tenured teachers when administrators determine they are ineffective, Berger’s office said. Instead, the changes would allow local school boards to employ all teachers on an annual contract that doesn’t have to be renewed each fall. [Bold added.]
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"“NC Senate wants merit pay, end to tteacher tenure”"
