{"id":685,"date":"2012-01-26T16:25:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T21:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.vassp.org\/?p=685"},"modified":"2012-01-26T16:25:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T21:25:07","slug":"teacher-tenurecontinuing-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Tenure\/Continuing Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The long held belief that teachers can have permanent positions\u00a0through tenure has begun to fade with new accountabilites. In a recent article in the Richmond Times Dispatch,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.timesdispatch.com\/news\/2012\/jan\/25\/tdnat01-states-weaken-teacher-tenure-rights-ar-1637129\/\">http:\/\/www2.timesdispatch.com\/news\/2012\/jan\/25\/tdnat01-states-weaken-teacher-tenure-rights-ar-1637129\/<\/a>\u00a0, the reality of accountability\u00a0that is\u00a0tied into funding and jobs has brought a new paradigm to educators.\u00a0 The shift now for educators&#8217; job security\u00a0is being driven\u00a0by the reality of evaluations based on satisfactory performance and layoffs\/removal based on performance rather than seniority.<\/p>\n<p>Several states now require student performance to be the central factor to determine whether a teacher is awarded tenure and others want evidence that students are learning before awarding tenure. Building administrators more than ever will need to spend much more time in an already crowded daily schedule\u00a0with \u00a0observations, documentation and follow up\u00a0conferences.\u00a0 Add assitance for struggling teachers to the mix, and school administator&#8217;s jobs will\u00a0have extra layers added on.\u00a0 In Virginia, pending legislation from HB576 (see the January 21 blog post) would bring about significant changes in continuing contract status for\u00a0teachers and increase the amount of time in classrooms for classroom observations, conferences and assistance if needed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long held belief that teachers can have permanent positions\u00a0through tenure has begun to fade with new accountabilites. In a recent article in the Richmond Times Dispatch,\u00a0http:\/\/www2.timesdispatch.com\/news\/2012\/jan\/25\/tdnat01-states-weaken-teacher-tenure-rights-ar-1637129\/\u00a0, the reality of accountability\u00a0that is\u00a0tied into funding and jobs has brought a new paradigm to educators.\u00a0 The shift now for educators&#8217; job security\u00a0is being driven\u00a0by the reality of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/?p=685\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[67,65,71],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","tag-legislative-actions","tag-teacherprincipal-evaluation","tag-tenure","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}