New School Policy Does Away With Seniority-Only Teacher Placements
Union representatives say any changes need to be negotiated.
In a 6-0 vote Tuesday night, the School Committee approved a new personnel policy that eliminates using senority as the sole criteria for teacher hiring and placement. Committeewoman Mary Ellen Winter was absent. School Committee Chair David Green said the action came in an effort to align EGSD policy with the state Department of Education's Basic Education Program, or BEP. The BEP calls for "an effective human capital management system," according to a 2009 letter from Education Commissioner Deborah Gist to superintendents. In that letter, Gist highlighted the language in the BEP (which was enacted by Gist's predecessor, Peter McWalter) that reads, "each LEA shall maintain control of its ability to recruit, hire, manage, evaluate and …
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11:46 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
If EG wants to evaluate teachers by the growth of students they might be in violation of Rhode Island law. This can not be part of an effective human capital management system because growth tests are not designed to tell what part of the growth is attributable to the teacher. more ›