A committee working on the hot-button issue that pushed Tacoma teachers to strike last fall inked a new agreement Wednesday that settles it.
A committee working on the hot-button issue that pushed Tacoma teachers to strike last fall inked a new agreement Wednesday that settles it.
The committee, made up of teachers union and school district representatives, came up with a plan to govern how teachers will go through the displacement process. The process occurs each spring, when school and district officials decide school staffing levels for the following fall.
Twin Tacoma teachers John and Ryan Prosser have left middle-schoolers behind for a new set of students: other teachers.
Barely 18 months after teachers in Tacoma went on strike over their district's proposal to give principals more authority over teacher placement, the Legislature is poised to derail the plan that helped make peace between the union and school system.
Proposals to grade all Washington schools from A to F and to give principals veto authority over which teachers are assigned to their schools passed a divided state Senate Wednesday.
Republicans in the state Senate want to revive a handful of controversial education-reform measures during upcoming budget negotiations, including giving principals veto authority over teacher transfers, assigning letter grades to schools, and intervening when students can’t read well by third grade.
A proposal to give school principals the power to decide placement of teachers and other staff passed the state Senate Wednesday, despite strong opposition from minority Democrats.
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