Prop. 74
- Increases length of time required before a teacher may become a permanent employee from two complete consecutive school years to five complete consecutive school years.
- Measure applies to teachers whose probationary period commenced during or after the 2003-2004 fiscal year.
- Modifies the process by which school boards can dismiss a permanent teaching employee who receives two consecutive unsatisfactory performance evaluations.
My vote: A mild Yes.
This is probably the proposition I care the least about. I really see little difference between requiring 5 years for tenure instead of 2 years. If a teacher is going to make the cut after 2 years then they will probably make it after another 3. There might be a few number of teachers that are weeded out in this additional 3 year window before they are given tenure and virtually invincible job security. It doesn’t really make it harder to become a teacher, it just keeps them accountable for longer, which is much closer to how the real world works.
after seeing all the stress and extra work that poor teachers cause for the good ones, I’m all for anything that makes it easier to weed them out. And bottom line… if you’re a good teacher, what do you have to worry about? What does that say about all the teachers screaming No on 74?? I’m running for school board one day…. gonna clean up this town! :-)