2. Tenure - what are the rules for tenure and our requirement to offer it. Also, what legal rights do we have in the first 3 years to terminate staff and simply rehire from scratch. Taken to the extreme, over a 15 to 20 year period could you arrive at a district with no tenured teachers.
The BOE is not required to accept the recomendation of the Superintendent of a teacher for tenure. A teacher can be dismssed from employment within the three year probationary period without any formal reason. However, it is never advisable to do so without docmentation of poor performance. A teacher is usally offered the opportunity to resign in lieu of termination. There are specfic timelines that must be followed if teachers were to be terminated and they can ask for the reasons. Most importantly, though, from a legal prospective, similar attempts to circumvent the tenure laws have been struck down by the courts as unlawful. Therefore, you would not be able to run a district without any tenured teachers.
From an educational perspective, top teachers would not want to work in Port Washington when they can get job protection elsewhere. Further, the District would have no experienced teachers who are in the classroom at the height of their skill base and professional development. There would also be no experienced teachers to mentor new teachers. The District would be continually firing, hiring and training teachers in order to comply with the SED mandates on assessments and evaluations. A constant turnover of teachers could very easily result in a significant decline is student achievement. This is neither an effective or efficient managerial approach to maintaining a high performing school district.
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