MINNEAPOLIS — Ahead of the new school year, Minneapolis Public Schools has defended its agreement reached with the teacher's union this spring to prioritize retaining educators of underrepresented backgrounds when determining layoffs.
Effective in the spring of 2023, the contract provision states that teachers who are members of"populations underrepresented among licensed teachers in the district" may be exempt from district-wide layoffs outside of seniority order, deviating from the traditional"last-in, first-out" system.
The policy comes as efforts to diversify teachers in Minnesota are ramping up in the state legislature with the introduction of HF3079, the 2022 Increase Teachers of Color Act. James Dickey, an attorney in Minneapolis, told ABC News that his firm has recently received a"flood of emails" from taxpayers and teachers in Minneapolis who are opposed to the policy and have reached out regarding potential legal actions.
"Teachers are not being evaluated based on merit, they're being evaluated based on, you know, first in first and last out. And I think that's the bigger problem," he said. The union wrote that it wanted to create a"transparent, legal, ethical process" to retain the"unique skills and experiences" of educators of color and those of other underrepresented backgrounds in the case of budget cuts and layoffs.
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