Unintended Consequences: How the Staffing Rules in Teachers’ Union Contracts Affect Urban Schools
Printer-friendly versionThe New Teacher Project (TNTP) will discuss the findings of its recently published report on the impact of collectively bargaining transfer and excess rules on teacher hiring and staffing in five urban districts. Although esoteric, legalistic, and seemingly divorced from the daily lives of students and schools, the transfer and excess rules control all aspects of teacher hiring and staffing in each district. TNTP will describe the extent to which these rules undermine the efforts of urban schools to hire and retain the teachers that can best meet the needs of their students and will present a “model contract” for reform.
Presenter:
Jessica Levin, The New Teacher Project, New York, NY
Presented:
November 4 2005
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