NJEA Director of Government Relations Ginger Gold Schnitzer delivered detailed testimony to the Senate Education Committee today on S-1455, a tenure bill that would essentially eliminate tenure by taking away due process rights from tenured New Jersey teachers.

“NJEA does not want ineffective teachers in the classrooms of our public schools,” Gold Schnitzer told the committee.  Then, citing two main thrusts of NJEA’s proposal, she added that “the process for dismissing an ineffective teacher can – and should – take less time and cost less money.”  NJEA’s proposal would replicate the dismissal law adopted 20 years ago in Massachusetts, where the courts were removed from the process and replaced with final and binding arbitration hearings.