Teachers surveyed agree: end ‘quality-blind’ layoffs
March 07, 2010 Filed in: Unions
John Festerwald, The Educated Guess
Civil rights attorneys
aren’t the only ones opposed to a teacher layoff system based
strictly on seniority. Teachers themselves apparently aren’t crazy
about it either.
“A Smarter Teacher Layoff System” – a report this month by
The New Teacher Project –
included a survey of 9,000
teachers in two unnamed urban districts. Seventy percent of
teachers in one district and 77 percent of teachers in the other,
including most of tenured teachers, said that factors other
than just seniority should be considered in a layoff…