CT News Junkie | Education Reform Passes Senate Early Tuesday Morning: "Two of the most difficult issues for lawmakers were in figuring out where charter schools fit into the state’s education picture and how teacher tenure is handled under a newly developed evaluation system.
Charter school funding was boosted in the bill passed by the Senate on Tuesday morning, but it wasn’t funded to the extent that Malloy had requested. Funding for charter schools was increased from $9,400 to $10,500 in the first year, $11,000 in the second, and $11,500 in the third. It also allows nonprofits to operate six of the 25 schools identified as turnaround schools, in effect prohibiting for-profit companies from doing so.
As far as teacher tenure goes, Sen. Andrea Stillman, co-chair of the Education Committee, said a teacher after four years of good evaluations should be granted tenure in their fifth year.
“Tenure, as you know, is due process,” Stillman said. “If a teacher has tenure and their evaluations fall off then the administrator can step in and help mentor that teacher.”
If that teacher doesn’t improve, then a termination process can begin, Stillman said."
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