As many as 286 Tulsa Public Schools teachers will not have their contracts renewed for the 2010-11 academic year. That means those teachers would unfortunately be without a job. This heart-breaking event is caused by a lack of adequate response to the Tulsa Public Schools’ retirement and attrition incentive plans.
“The last thing any superintendent wants to do is reduce the teaching workforce,” said Dr. Keith Ballard – superintendent of Tulsa Public Schools. “Having started my career in education as a teacher, my heart breaks for each and every teacher who will receive a notice of non-renewal in the coming days.”
According to him, he put off sending the non-renewal as long as possible in the hopes that the state legislature would somehow come up with a miraculous budget that would minimize the impact to school districts. As sad as this may be, principals have already began hand-delivering the notices on Wednesday.
Of the 286 teachers, 225 are first-year teachers. Some have just even bought houses and this non-renewal will put them in a dire financial situation.
“Most of these are first-year teachers. We hired them. We raised them. Every school has a different atmosphere, and every school has different expectations. These people met those expectations, or we would have fired them,” Hemm, the principal at Eugene Field said.
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