Necessary Steps to Ensure Effective Teaching for All Children

 
6.         Open school with NO teacher vacancies. 

Classrooms without teachers are dangerous and unfair to students.  They are disruptive to student learning and to the school community as a whole. The District should complete teacher assignment early in the summer so that school communities have sufficient time to prepare for the school year. 

Suggested Reforms

 ·               Move up the hiring schedule so that hiring decisions can be made earlier in the year. 

 ·              Move up the timeline of transfers of veteran teachers.

 ·               Revise retirement rules and incentives so that teachers give timely notice of their retirement (preferably by mid-March).

 ·               Determine staffing vacancies in a timely manner and work with partners to fill expected vacancies.

 ·              Eliminate agreements and practices that do not permit the hiring of new teachers until all current teachers have been placed.