{"id":490,"date":"2011-08-18T11:37:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T15:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/?p=490"},"modified":"2012-04-26T16:56:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T20:56:18","slug":"teacher-swap-quashed-in-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/teacher-swap-quashed-in-new-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Swap Quashed in New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year the Newark, NJ school system accepted a $5 million grant from the federal government to turn around the failing Malcom X. Shabazz High School.\u00a0 As part of the deal, the district agreed to replace at least half of the school\u2019s teachers, believing that principals could then hire better ones.\u00a0 What happened instead was a swap similar to a mid-season baseball trade deal: teachers from Shabazz went to another failing school, and teachers from that schools replaced them.<\/p>\n<p>In all, 68 teachers switched schools.\u00a0 Shabazz, with a total staff of 90 teachers, sent 21 teachers to Barringer High School; Barringer in turn sent 21 of their teachers to Shabazz.\u00a0 \u201cFederal money may have unintentionally funded the infamous \u2018dance of the lemons,\u2019\u201d said Tim Daly, president of the New Teacher Project, \u201cIf these teachers truly were not good enough for one struggling school, we have to ask whether it is a good idea to put them in another one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Justin Hamilton, a spokesman for the US Department of Education, called the swap \u201cwrong,\u201d and that turning around low-performing schools should not be treated as a game.\u00a0 He added that other urban districts around the country have made efforts to ensure that teachers from one failing school do not end up at another failing school.<\/p>\n<p>Cami Anderson, the newly installed superintendent of Newark\u2019s schools, fired back that \u201cteacher shuffling is common and inevitable in a city with only a few comprehensive high schools and a slew of magnet schools where people are not going to leave.\u201d\u00a0 However, she has changed the policy that allowed the swap to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Principals and teachers are now encouraged to attend job fairs and have a more robust interview processes.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this new effort is severely hampered by the state\u2019s tenure laws.\u00a0 Tenured teachers are guaranteed a paycheck regardless of whether a principal wants to hire or retain them; Anderson\u2019s new policy then will cost the district an extra $10 to $15 million per year to pay teachers who are not teaching.\u00a0 \u201cIn other words, by doing the right thing, we created a massive budget issue,\u201d she said.\u00a0 New Jersey is among ten other states that have such tenure policies.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Cerf, Acting Commissioner for the New Jersey Department of Education, has announced that in the new round of school improvement grants, school districts must prove they will end \u201cforced placement\u201d (placing teachers at schools without an interview process), which is what happened in the Newark school system.\u00a0 Mr. Cerf is also making the implementation of a teacher evaluation system that takes student test scores and other measures of student progress into account a requirement for any district wanting federal funds\u2014a nearly unheard of practice in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full story, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424053111904888304576472530222180972.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424053111904888304576472530222180972.html?mod=googlenews_wsj<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year the Newark, NJ school system accepted a $5 million grant from the federal government to turn around the failing Malcom X. 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