Undue Process
Steps to dismiss and unsatisfactory teacher in a Colorado Public School
commongood.org
Message 24399869
How to Fire an Incompetent Teacher
An illustrated guide to New York's public school bureaucracy
"...The city payrolls include hundreds of teachers who have been deemed incompetent, violent, or guilty of sexual misconduct. Since the schools are afraid to let them teach, they put them in so-called "rubber rooms" instead. There they read magazines, play cards, and chat, at a cost to New York taxpayers of $20 million a year.
Once, Klein reports, the school system discovered that a teacher was sending sexual e-mails to a 16-year-old student. "This was the most unbelievable case to me," he says, "because the e-mail was there, he admitted to it. It was so thoroughly offensive." Even with the teacher's confession, it took six years of expensive litigation before the school could fire him. He didn't teach during those six years, but he still got paid—more than $350,000 total..."
reason.com
Message 24445849
Group offers bad teachers cash to quit.
wcco.com@wcco.dayport.com
Message 24406376
New Campaign Exposes Teachers Unions
Message 24426793 |
