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Pressure mounts to ax teacher seniority rules
- 03-07-2011
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By Larry Abramson/NPR
Education reformers have argued for some time that relying on seniority alone to determine layoffs gets rid of young, promising teachers and causes mayhem in low-income schools. Unions, however, say ending "last in, first out" rules will only aggravate the already huge problem of teacher turnover. Last week, the New York state Senate passed a bill that would end the use of seniority as the sole factor for deciding which teachers get laid off. The bill faces long odds in the state Assembly. But the vote is a sign of growing frustration with what's known as "last in, first out" — a rule that says the last teachers hired get dismissed first when there is a layoff. (more...)
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