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Committee reviews tenure recommendation process and state APPR changes
Summary
Committee members received an overview of tenure recommendations, observation requirements under APPR/State Step Program, and the March 1 deadline for required observations for not-yet-tenured staff; members asked staff to return with counts and proposed tenure-report templates.
At the same Feb. 3 human resources committee work session, members reviewed the district’s tenure-recommendation process and the role of the annual professional performance review (APPR) in tenure decisions.
Zach Jin, the HR presenter, told the committee that tenure recommendations are a board action and summarized the typical probationary period in New York. “In New York state, usually, the probationary period is 4 years,” he said, and described the superintendent’s role in recommending teachers for tenure to the board.
Speaker 3 (identified in the transcript as speaking from a union perspective) described the district’s…
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