MAINE COMPASS: Education reform bill's essence is to make it easier to fire teachers | The Morning Sentinel, Waterville, ME

MAINE COMPASS: Education reform bill's essence is to make it easier to fire teachers | The Morning Sentinel, Waterville, ME: "It's important to note that if a school is plagued with ineffective teachers, it is because principals have hired them, and superintendents and school boards have endorsed the hires.

Yet L.D. 1858 gives school administrators more power in hiring decisions, but does not specify any consequences to principals and superintendents who might routinely hire bad teachers.

It doesn't need to. While it may be true that a few bad teachers have made it through all the requisite steps to the classroom, certainly they are not overrunning our schools like killer weeds, sucking up all the resources.

Principals, superintendents and school boards have not allowed so many bad teachers into their schools that the reform bill should appropriate substantial money and time to getting rid of these alleged blights and none toward nurturing the many dedicated, productive teachers who actually work in our schools."

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