Beth Fertig, WNYC's education reporter and contributor to SchoolBook, and Yasmeen Khan, WNYC associate news producer covering education and politics, update us on the apparent failure of negotiations between the teachers' union and the DOE, resulting in the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in state aid.
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"Why should teachers be a protected class?
Why should incompetent teachers be a protected class?"
Those are 2 entirely different questions. There are good answers for both, but totally different answers.
Principals control their own budgets which includes teacher salaries. Teachers regardless of ability are a financial liability because a teacher of 13 years making 80k can be replaced by two teachers starting at 40K
Eliminate Tenure for teachers.
Why should teachers be a protected class?
Why should incompetent teachers be a protected class?
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