Word: geiger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anti-tenure drive has inspired fierce opposition from the National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers' union. "I don't ever want it to be cheap to lay off an incompetent teacher," says N.E.A. president Keith Geiger. "But I don't want it to be impossible, either." He stresses that tenure was never meant to be a lifetime sinecure but was intended as a guarantee against dismissal without just cause. Says Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers: "An elected politician can't say, 'I'm going to fire you because you didn't support...
Graham, who denied having any conflict of interest, said, "They [GASP] have a right to make that accusation. And I have a right to make my decision." Graham said she intends to remain on the foundation's advisory board which includes Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton and Keith B. Geiger, president of the National Education Association...