Word: sra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many companies are asking their current workers to turn part-time recruiters by offering bonuses and sometimes other perks to those who bring in hirable candidates. At SRA International, a Virginia computer-software firm, any employee who finds a new worker gets $1,000, plus a chance in a company lottery. Prizes include the choice of a BMW Roadster, a Mercury Mountaineer or a Volvo sedan and an all-expenses-paid cruise for a family of four...
...SRA created a separate school district for each of Chicago's 540 public schools, all represented by 11 Local School Council (LSC) members. So that parental choice, not politics, would be the basis for LSC elections, six of the members at each school were elected directly by parents...
Under the SRA, LSCs gained some control over school budgets, as well as the power to fire incompetent school principals after their four-year contracts expired. They also received the right to review schools' curricula and help set their educational priorities...
...DECEMBER 1990, the Illinois Supreme Court declared the SRA unconstitutional because it violates the "one person, one vote," principle of constitutional law. Although the state legislature has tried to salvage the SRA by declaring ex post facto that the LSCs are appointed by the mayor of Chicago, this constitutional challenge has obviously thrown a giant fly into the reform ointment...
However, reform has been dealt a more serious setback by educators. The Chicago Principals' Association has attacked SRA's educational overhaul in court, in the LSCs and in the schools themselves. Fortunately, their legal challenge of the anti-tenure portions of the act was denied, but the association continues to oppose any substantive reform. It is appealing the ruling. And the Chicago Teachers' Union has supported the principals' challenge...