How can a board remove poor employees? What is tenure?
State laws, union contracts and local district policies spell out employment, discipline and release procedures for all employees. The administration and board follow these procedures. One law, New Jersey’s tenure statute, is particularly significant. Tenure is the right of certain employees to continuing employment after working in the district for three years and a day, and upon meeting certain criteria. Tenured employees may be dismissed for reasons such as inefficiency or unbecoming conduct, but that decision is made by the state Education Commissioner after state-level hearings, which take place only after the local board files “tenure charges” to remove the employee. (It is important to note that since September 1991, newly hired superintendents were no longer eligible for tenure, but work under a negotiated three-to-five-year contract.
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