In his 2015 State of the State address, Governor Cuomo, speaking about the challenges facing New York’s public schools, attacked Teacher tenure, claiming that it protects ineffective educators from being fired. To me this seemed like classic scapegoating, but to my surprise, many of my colleagues in the business community echoed similar views.
I believe many New Yorkers, especially those in the business sector, simply do not understand tenure, its real functions and value, and that their views are too often informed by myths that have been increasingly circulated by private-sector ‘reform’ advocates and for-profit charter organizations.
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