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Shelly Leachman
For years Shelly Leachman's mom encouraged her to go into education; she chose to write about it instead. Since 2006 Shelly has been juggling coverage of 10 school districts and two colleges for the Daily Breeze, where she is the resident office apple addict. Contact her at: dailybreeze.com

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Teachers On Teachers

What do you think about this, fair educators out there?

There's an Associated Press story, which I found at USA Today, about a Tuesday-released survey by think-tank Education Sector that reveals: "More than half of teachers believe it's too difficult to weed out ineffective teachers who have tenure, and nearly half say they personally know such a teacher."

It also said: "About 70% of teachers in the Education Sector survey said receiving tenure was just a formality that has little to do with teacher quality."

Have any thoughts about this? Let me know: shelly.leachman@dailybreeze.com.

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