Senate Education Committee discusses tenure reform bill’s nuts and bolts

By Jeanette Rundquist/The Star-Ledger

TRENTON — The details of tenure reform — who is affected, when it starts and how it will be paid for — were discussed in the Senate Education Committee today.
Teachers union leaders, school superintendents, retired teachers, state officials, business leaders, school advocates and others testified in a more than three-hour hearing on the bill introduced last month by Sen. Teresa Ruiz (D-Essex.)
“There is no greater urgency in my city,” Newark Mayor Cory Booker said.
Several speakers urged that teachers get a greater part in the process.
“Teachers need to have a voice in this bill … as we move forward with these decisions,” said Donna Chiera, a retired Perth Amboy teacher, and president of the American Federation of Teachers of New Jersey.

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