Getting rid of bad... somethings

Getting rid of bad teachers.

Nov 15, 2007 - From the City Room blog at the New York Times comes this PR information on Mayor Bloomberg and getting rid of bad teachers. Headline: A New Effort to Remove Bad Teachers

The Bloomberg administration is beginning a drive to remove unsatisfactory teachers, hiring new teams of lawyers and consultants who will help principals build cases against tenured teachers who they believe are not up to the job. It is also urging principals to get rid of sub-par novices before they earn tenure.

As Elissa Gootman reports, at the center of the effort is a new Teacher Performance Unit of five lawyers, headed by a former prosecutor fresh from convicting a former private school principal who had a sexual relationship with a student.

A separate team of five consultants, including former principals, will work with principals to improve struggling teachers’ performance. In cases where the teachers fail to get better, the consultants will help amass the documentation necessary to oust them.

The plans, at a cost of $1 million a year, are described in a memo and an accompanying letter to principals from Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein.

TT- We previously looked at Mayor Bloomberg's, ah, reforms. Link Link