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State Representative Kurt Zellers
100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
651-296-5502
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PRESS RELEASE
Speaker Zellers Statement on Passing LIFO
"The Minnesota House took an important step today toward ensuring effective teachers in Minnesota classrooms. The outdated, rigid Last In, First Out policy says the last teachers hired are the first teachers fired, regardless of how good they are. Basing personnel decisions in schools solely on seniority ignores teacher effectiveness and student achievement. The status quo in education is simply not enough. Experience matters but the number of years served is not an adequate measure of ability, competence and success in teaching kids. Our education reform agenda was developed to help students, close the achievement gap and ensure great, quality teachers in the classroom. Ending the Last In, First Out practice is the right thing to do.”
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