Week 5 - Discussion 3
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Pick a state of interest to you. Find the laws of that state regarding public school teacher tenure and
briefly summarize those laws and the procedures that they entail. Should tenure protections
for public school teachers be abolished? Why or why not? One rule: Everyone must choose a different
state.
In the state of Georgia, tenure as it exists is a statutory right of certain teachers who have served
under contract with the same board of education for a specific number of years to expect that their
employment with a school district will continue from year to year unless the school district has specific
legal grounds not to rehire them for the following school year and provides them a process to
challenge the existence of those grounds.
Tenure is not, by any means, a right to a job; it is a right to a
process if the school system proposes not to rehire a teacher with tenure rights.
Unlike post-
secondary education, tenure is not awarded by vote to a committee or by the decision of an
administrator.
It status is acquired when a teacher has been offered and accept the requisite number
of consecutive contracts with the same school district.
The A+ Education Reform Act of 2000 included
a provision prohibiting individuals who first become teachers after July 1, 2000 from acquiring tenure
rights, but those rights were restored by the General Assembly three years later.
The commonly held
opinion that tenure is a bar for terminating incompetent employee is false.
Competent
documentation of ineffective performance coupled with a commitment from the board and
administrative staff to rid the system of employees who cannot or will not be effective is all that is
required legally to support such a decision in Georgia.
I do not believe that tenure protection for public school teachers should be abolished.
Tenure assists
low-income schools in attracting and retaining good teachers.
Schools in poverty communities many
times are underfunded and that makes it difficult for low-income schools to find and keep top
teachers.
Terminating employees and the fair dismissal act.
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