What Can School Districts and States Do?
To compete for the best new talent, large urban school systems need to overhaul their hiring policies so that they can be in a position to hire and place new teachers by the beginning of May. That means local school districts will have to examine collective bargaining agreements, memoranda of understanding, and other arrangements to make sure these policies don’t work at cross-purposes with teacher-hiring efforts. They must work with teachers’ unions to ensure early notification by resigning or retiring teachers. Likewise, they should revamp their collective bargaining agreements with an eye toward speeding up the teacher transfer process and giving external candidates a fair and early shot at new vacancies. And, to help all school districts, state policymakers need to work with superintendents to move up budget timelines that create uncertainty or, at a minimum, offer better and timelier budget forecasting to help with planning. The good news is that the problems identified in the TNT
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