Denver Public Schools set to strip nearly 50 teachers of tenure protections after poor evaluations

Compared with other large Colorado school districts, Denver Public Schools has a higher proportion of teachers set to lose tenure under a sweeping educator effectiveness law passed six years ago.

Forty-seven Denver teachers are poised to lose non-probationary status — or tenure — after two consecutive years of being rated ineffective at their jobs, according to district officials. Those teachers represent about 2 percent of the total number of non-probationary teachers in DPS, the state’s largest school district.

A survey by Chalkbeat also found: In Douglas County, 24 non-probationary teachers are set to lose their status, which is slightly more than 1 percent of the district’s total number of tenured teachers. In Aurora, 12 teachers are set to lose their status, which is less than 1 percent of the non-probationary teachers in that district.

http://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/co/2016/07/14/denver-public-schools-set-to-strip-nearly-50-teachers-of-tenure-protections-after-poor-evaluations/