Accountabilty for Hiring?

Well, one would hope.

Check out the stories from the Trib and the Sun-Times on how CPS wants to change teacher recruitment here.

Here is what I think: 40 or 50 years of framing the issue as teacher inability comes to a crashing end.

Finally, finally, someone asks "who hires?" the people everyone loves to complian about.

Administration has 4 years to decide on the viability of a teacher before they are awarded tenure (3 years in previous contracts). How did this work in the past? Did they simply hire and hope it will work out?

For the last few eons, the issue has never been about who is responsible for putting us in this mess, no one asked who did the hiring. Not once. That would mean accountability for adminstrators.

The frame has always been that teachers (and by extension their unions) are to blame for all problems. What are the solutions when you look at the issue from that point of view?
Charters.
Reconstitution.

I don't know who is to thank for this move by the board, but for once they got it right. Train people to make good hiring decisions and things just might get better (of course that means they have to look at who they have in place to make those decisions...maybe even ask themselves who hired the principal who makes bad choices?)

What next? Will the board revise how professional development is used in the district and make strides towards improving who they already have working for them?

Will wonders never cease?

What do you think?