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Nearly Half the Teachers in New York City Are Denied Tenure in 2012

The education reform movement, slow economies and federal grant competitions have led lawmakers to tighten the requirements for earning and keeping tenure.

 

Illinois Lawmakers Consider Plan To Limit Tenure, Strike Rights For Teachers

In Government and Policy This is not a time of holiday cheer for teachers' unions in Chicago and throughout Illinois. A hastily formed committee of the Illinois House of Representatives will hold hearings in Aurora this week with an agenda threatening to erode tenure and other job protections enjoyed by educators, and even to curtail dramatically the unions' right to call a strike.

 

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