Connecticut Governor Malloy Urges New Tenure Rules for Connecticut Teachers

Peter Applebome, via a kind Doug Newman email:

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy proposed a broad set of education initiatives, including major changes to teacher tenure, on Wednesday in his second State of the State address, a speech that found his efforts split between unfinished business from his first year in office and a new agenda for his second.

Mr. Malloy, a Democrat, cast himself as a governor focused on educational innovation in a state with the nation's largest achievement gap between largely white suburban students and largely minority urban ones, even if that put him at odds with traditionally supportive constituencies, like teachers' unions.

He said teachers could get tenure just by showing up for work, which he called unacceptable.

"Today tenure is too easy to get and too hard to take away," he said in a joint legislative session at Connecticut's ornate House chamber.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at February 12, 2012 2:25 AM
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