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With layoffs looming for scores of teachers in the country’s public schools, more parents and government officials are opposing seniority agreements in contracts with teachers unions. The status quo, representing a “last in, first out” pecking order, handles layoffs by first eliminating the newest teachers from classrooms. Joel I. Klein, chancellor of New York City’s school system—which could potentially layoff as many as 8,500 people this year because of a loss in state aid—has criticized the use of seniority as the sole...
Rather than contending the dichotomy between seniority and teacher effectiveness, however, Klein and others should advocate a different approach to education policy that is based on keeping as many teachers as possible in the classroom. Public school teachers are essential to improving American education, meeting the needs of all students, and providing a crucial long-term investment in the continuing competitiveness, creativity, and competence of the country as a whole...
...such, laying off teachers is a short-term remedy that will have detrimental implications for the future. Larger classes will decrease the amount of quality and care afforded to students at present, an option that our already-struggling public school system cannot afford to see come to fruition. A decrease in the quality of education now will amplify over the years to result in an unwelcome decrease in the number of citizens capable of contributing and engaging with an increasingly competitive global economy. Moreover, any lessening in the current pool of teaching jobs will further discourage bright, enthusiastic students from...
...best to educate students with a decreasing availability of resources to do so. Rather than debating whom to lay off and how, however, we should be shifting the focus of the debate to how to preserve these jobs through the allocation of more funds for the protection of public education...
...hauling the top brass of the world's largest automaker to Capitol Hill for a public flogging, House members got to vent their outrage at Toyota's sclerotic response to the crisis. So far the once revered company has had to recall more than 8 million vehicles for issues ranging from troublesome floor mats to sticky gas pedals to faulty brakes. But several committee members maintained that Toyota has failed to address the possibility that scrambled computers in its cars could be the culprit. In a blistering letter submitted to Toyota's U.S. president, James Lentz, before the hearing, Representatives...