[Mpls] Teacher placement in MPS schools

[Brionna Harder]

Mr. Mann,

Could I ask a point of clarification?   You state that there is a high 
concentration of probationary teachers in the "hardest schools," meaning 
schools where the poverty rate and transciency rate are very high and 
teacher turn-over also high.  (I am not disputing this. . . this is 
reality.)  And you would like to the district to intervene so that it is no 
longer the situation.  Does this mean you would like to restructure and the 
hiring and placement process?  Who would really get to say "you're hired and 
this is where and what you will teach"?  The district?  The Board?

I guess I'd like more details on how you propose to stop this tendency.  
Your explanation of what it is was good, but I don't feel like I understand 
exactly how you would change it.

Thanks,

Brionna Harder (with my first cold of the school year, already)
Cathedral Hill

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