Considering how well Jerry Brown did destroying Oakland and its school system, one can’t begin to imagine how well he’ll do with the entire state of California. The nightmare is right on the horizon. Future article will be entitled “Brain drain from California School Districts,” and the “rest of California.”
1. Eliminate tenure and seniority.
2. Base teacher benefits and retention on quality, not seniority.
3. Make it clear to the persons evaluating, hiring and promoting teachers that their jobs depend on improving the quality of education.
4. Make the dismissal of a bad teacher a simple, short process - not a multiyear judicial process.
5. Make the expulsion of chronic troublemakers in the student body a simple, short process - not a multiyear judicial process.
6. Encourage teachers to get advanced degrees in their areas of expertise. Discourage them from obtaining advanced degrees in Education.
The schools would improve markedly in a very short period of time.