New School Personnel Policy Would End Seniority-Based Placements
Teacher assignments to be based on student needs first.
The School Committee took a step toward abolishing the "job fair" approach to filling teaching spots with the first reading of a new "personnel assignment policy" at a meeting Tuesday night. "This has the potential to modify that whole program," said School Committee chair David Green. In the job fair, teachers and support staff bid on open positions, the job going to the bidder with the greatest seniority. "The BEP [basic education plan] requires us to use student outcomes and needs as the primary determination" in filling teaching positions, Green said. The new policy doesn't mean seniority wouldn't be used in placements, only that it would no longer be the determining factor. The BEP was revised in 2009 to include that change, but …
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Chuck Barton
10:44 pm on Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Well, Leo - we will wait and see. This step builds on one the SC achieved in the 1990's when we ( I was on the SC then) negotiated a contract that specified that new hires were hired to a certification not to a general list. For example, if a new teacher was hired as a special ed teacher and he or she did not have seniority rights to a K-6 classroom position, even if certified to teach in a K-6 … more ›