Mayor Bloomberg proposes ending automatic tenure for teachers

The New York Post reports;

Automatic teacher tenure in New York City could be history.

No stranger to making education reforms, Mayor Bloomberg outlined a plan today to do away with lifetime positions and replacing it with a system where teachers would be required to earn tenure.

In an effort to focus on teacher quality and effectiveness, the city will implement a four-tier rating system for determining whether a teacher should be awarded automatic tenure protections that come with the job.

Starting this year, only teachers rated “effective” or “highly effective” will be eligible for tenure, Bloomberg said, transforming a system from one in which tenure is taken for granted to one in which it must be earned.