Word: cca
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spite of the may problems, the school committee must struggle to keep the schools open. The teachers' contract some up for renewal at the end of this school year are schedueld to start shortly, "will be quite difficult" if the CCA continues to dominate the school committee...
Another frightening possibility, Koocher said, is that CCA members would hold only a 4-3 majority on the new school committee, which--under school hoard guidelines--would not be enough to dismiss a tenured teacher. In this case, Koocher said, he committee would have a policy of minority teachers in the system but would have no way to dismiss other personnel, leaving the system with more teachers on its payroll than it would have funds...
Leary and the CTA contend that the CCA majority's re-interpretation has allowed the current school committee to bas the dismissal of teachers on criteria other than the two factors they consider significant--certification by state and seniority. The present school committee's policy takes into account, among other things, how long a teacher has been working in the system, what subject areas the state has certified him to teach, his racial or ethnic background, and how long he has been teaching in a particular subject area...
According to Glenn S. Koocher '71, an incumbent CCA board member, which faction--the CCA or the Independents--controls the most seats on the school committee will entire desegregation plan. Koocher says that if the Independents came to hold a decisive majority on the new school committee, additional teacher dismissals would likely be based on straight seniority criteria: The last to be hired would be the first to be fired...
...effects of stragiht seniority firing will likely extend far beyond the ruination of the desegregation plan, according to CCA members. If young teachers are largely eliminated from the school system many alternative educational programs would suffer, forcing many students out of the public schools. "Anyone with two dimes to rub together would put their children in private schools," one CCA leader said recently...