tenure

Why We Need Tenure Reform

Leslie Brody at the Wall St. Journal reports today that the New York City Department of Education will “pay $1.8…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Column: Teacher Unions v. David Boies; the Democratic Rift

Liberals and labor unions go together like wine and cheese. Thus, it was with an ironic flair that the newly-formed…

10 years ago

QOD: Boies Leads NYS Tenure Fight; “Emblematic” of Fracture between Dems and Teacher Unions

From yesterday's New York Times:David Boies, the star trial lawyer who helped lead the legal charge that overturned California’s same-sex…

10 years ago

New Jersey on Post-Vergara List, says Michelle Rhee

NPR interviewed Michelle Rhee, CEO  of StudentsFirst and former Chancellor of D.C. Public Schools. Here's a bit of  the Q…

10 years ago

QOD: TNTP on Lockstep Teacher Pay

Re: TNTP's new report, Shortchanged: Today, we’re putting a stake in the ground on teacher pay. In our new paper,…

10 years ago

QOD: Sentiments Shifting on Seniority-Based Job Security

A strong majority of California voters oppose the state’s tenure and layoff policies for public school teachers, according to a…

10 years ago

New Spotlight column: the politics behind the proposed PARCC delay

It starts here: Last Thursday, the state Senate Education Committee heard testimony from proponents and opponents of a draft bill…

10 years ago

QOD: Abbott and Vergara, Funding Equity and Instructional Equity

In 1990, Chief Justice Robert Wilentz issued the Abbott II decision, one in a series of rulings that inform NJ’s…

10 years ago

Re: Vergara: “LIFO Keeps NJ from True Tenure Reform”

Here's this week's WHYY Newsworks column: Public school calendars may be winding down, but education rhetoric is heating up after…

10 years ago

Star Ledger Editorial Board Links Vegara Case To NJ’s Failure to Eliminate LIFO

Good teachers are an incredibly important variable in student success. Last year, a Harvard researcher found that students taught by…

10 years ago