According to the administration, making it more difficult for charter teachers to earn tenure gives the schools themselves “more flexibility”
By John Mooney
Soon after proposing that certification rules for new charter school teachers should be eased, the Christie administration is moving to toughen what it takes those teachers to get and keep tenure.
In a proposal posted on the New Jersey Register this month, the administration has suggested that new teachers at charter schools would receive tenure protections after five years — a year more than the current four years for district teachers.
In addition, they would be subject to a different due process procedure in case of tenure charges, one without the arbitration process newly put in place for district teachers. Instead, the state commissioner would continue to have final say on appeals, short of the courts.
The proposal also specifies that teachers in a charter could lose tenure protections if the school failed to meet certain performance standards and was in peril of closing.
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