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Study Praises CPS Hiring Practices
A national group called CPRE has put out a report about how big city school districts like Chicago are managing their hiring and recruitment efforts, and some of you will be disappointed to hear that, according to this EdWeek article (Case Studies Detail Districts' Personnel Challenges), the report has some nice things to say about CPS:
"The 408,000-student Chicago district, for instance, works with several alternative-certification programs to bring more faces into its applicant pool, and has reduced teaching vacancy rates to 3 percent from 40 percent, the cross-case analysis said....The district draws principals from multiple routes, including a special program to develop teachers as school leaders. It moved up its hiring timelines to snag promising candidates, and used a business-management model to revamp its human-resources work, slashing to two days from 61 days the amount of time it takes an applicant to be contacted by a district staff member."
We've heard all this before, of course -- usually from CPS itself. Whether this is reliable outside confirmation or not depends on how the case study was done. Sometimes case studies are nothing more than collected interviews and self-reported information, not independent observation and outside data collection or analysis. Either way, EdWeek says that the report found lots of things that CPS and other big cities still need to work on, including more focused PD and better evaluation and retention efforts.
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MailOnly, hen can you discriminate by only hiring young teachers or non-certified staff.
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PS do not forget rewarding the administrators that helped to fire the tenured teachers.
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